The First Transistorized Computer . January, 1954: If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too.

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.

The first commercial product to use transistors was the hearing aid, made in 1952. Fortune magazine declared 1953 the “Year of the Transistor,” and, by 1954, Texas Instruments had introduced ...

Those abilities are fundamental for building all sorts of electronics, computers included. Within the first decade of the transistor era, these powers were recognized when three Bell Labs ...

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 ...