0 votes
by (160 points)
Why was the transistor invented?

1 Answer

0 votes
by (420 points)
Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. ... The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs.

Related questions

0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
asked Nov 28, 2019 by transistor (1k points)
0 votes
1 answer
asked Nov 28, 2019 by transistor (1k points)
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
0 votes
1 answer
...