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13159_7028_transistor_history2

1965
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CU on a hand wiring a cat whisker radio transistor. ECU on a rectifier used in telephones and which were used in the radar picture next. A silhouette of a cityscape lights up, camera zooms in to a man turning on a light, then an animation of electrons moving through a semiconductor. Animation shows the interaction of metals placed near the surface of a semiconductor with a current. This schematic is the first transistor.