In the beginning, there was the point-contact transistor. This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil ...

Just like island cities, modern transistors are being designed to take advantage of vertical space. Instead of attaching them in a flat plane, they can be arranged vertically together to allow for ...

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry.