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From: werd@interlog.com [Drew Williamson]
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 01:00:56 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 08:21:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Documentation of the transistor's invention

List members

http://www.lucent.com/timeline/tline40b.html

is a link to Bell Labs (now Lucent Technologies) "Timeline of Invention"
for the 1940's where the following can be found.

   1947: Transistor
   Developed as a replacement for vacuum tubes, the tiny
   device later revolutionizes the entire electronics world.

The URL for the Bell Labs Library page is;

http://www.bell-labs.com/bllib.html

Entering "transistor" at the bottom of the page brings up many more links,
including  Bell Laboratories People (item #3). Click on the "transistor"
link within the text and it takes you to

http://www.lucent.com/ideas2/heritage/transistor/

where you can read about history, the inventors, what is it, current uses, etc.
Going to;

http://www.lucent.com/ideas2/heritage/transistor/history.html

...gives a VERY detailed history of what led up to the invention, and on
one of the pages it states;

"In 1945, Bell Labs' executive director, Mervin Kelly, boosted Bell Labs
semiconductor research by putting together a worldclass team of solid-state
physicists."

There are many more links inside.

Enjoy.

Drew Williamson