[SpaceBar]

There is a segment of the late-nite conspiracy radio crowd that believes the bipolar junction transistor was the result of reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology from the supposed Roswell UFO crash of 1947. If one examines the professional qualifications of Bill Shockley as a physicist, it becomes clear that he, an expert in quantum and statistical physics was well qualified to invent, construct, and fully describe the operation of just such a device. It becomes even more ludicrous in light of the 1920’s Lilienfeld patents described above.

[ruination]

Coast to Coast?

[Lancey Howard]

Do you realize that you are arguing against a theory that transistors were reverse-engineered from the crash remnants of an alien spaceship?

[mkjessup]

There is a segment of the late-nite conspiracy radio crowd that believes the bipolar junction transistor was the result of reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology from the supposed Roswell UFO crash of 1947. If one examines the professional qualifications of Bill Shockley as a physicist, it becomes clear that he, an expert in quantum and statistical physics was well qualified to invent, construct, and fully describe the operation of just such a device.

C'mon, you didn't know that Shockley was an alien? Who do you think delivered the alien-hybrid baby Al Gore to Earth? (born 8 months and 3 weeks after the Roswell crash, coincidence? I think not!) ;)

[TheGeezer]

I’d always heard it was the integrated circuit that we stole from extraterrestrial aliens.