Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years after Texas Instruments and Regency introduced the first transistor radio.

These educational materials are made possible by a grant from The Lucent Foundation. Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and ...

Exterior styles in U.S. autos are as changeable as women’s hats. For ’63. they are simpler and handsomer than ever (see U.S. BUSINESS). But mechanically, U.S. cars are conservative; under their hoods ...

Electronics men are especially fond of transistors, those wondrous specks of germanium that perform like vacuum tubes while demanding almost no current and generating almost no heat (TIME, Dec. 1).