{"id":2554,"date":"2009-05-19T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2009-05-19T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T08:00:54","slug":"babys-first-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2554","title":{"rendered":"Baby&#039;s First Transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v23\/st16\"><em>Landmarks<\/em>: Birth of Modern Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In June 1948, the <em>Physical Review<\/em> published a description of a novel electronic device that &#8220;may be employed as an amplifier, oscillator, and for other purposes for which vacuum tubes are ordinarily used.&#8221; That statement hardly begins to capture the importance of the transistor, which made possible technology unimaginable at the time. But the first transistor design never saw commercial success. A different design, unveiled two years later by a colleague and rival of the original authors, spawned the modern microelectronics revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmarks: Birth of Modern Electronics In June 1948, the Physical Review published a description of a novel electronic device that &#8220;may be employed as an amplifier, oscillator, and for other purposes for which vacuum tubes are ordinarily used.&#8221; That statement &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}