Hold a "Day Without Transistors." Give up as many electronic devices as possible for one day. Then discuss how your life was different during that 24-hour period. How small can a transistor become?

There’s a picture of a project using three of them, a very period radio receiver with bulky transformers between all stages. If you’re interested in more tales of home made early transistors ...

The first transistor was about half an inch high. That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of technology.

He’s had a hand in every major change to the CMOS transistor during that time period. As Intel heads toward yet another major ...

Also called a "bipolar junction transistor" (BJT), it is one of two major transistor categories; the other is "field-effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistor was bipolar and the ...

There’s a picture of a project using three of them, a very period radio receiver with bulky transformers between all stages. If you’re interested in more tales of home made early transistors ...