The transistor was successfully demonstrated on December 23, 1947 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Bell Labs is the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). The three individuals credited with the invention of the transistor were William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.
Coinkydink or reverse engineering, you be the judge.
Those cute little aliens gave us the transistors so kids could carry radios where ever they went, blasting at all hours of the day with that rock and roll and all.
Insidious little monsters weren’t they?
Planting the seed for the destruction of western civilization.
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