It wasn’t until December 16, 1947 that the first successful test of their semiconductor amplifier occurred. They applied two closely-spaced gold contacts held in place by a plastic wedge to the ...

It suddenly occurred to him that all parts of a circuit, not just the transistor, could be made out of silicon. At the time, nobody was making capacitors or resistors out of semiconductors.

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