Closing the Gap in Communication Volume 5 | Page 5

The transistor, developed in 1947 by
three physics W. Shockley, J. Bardeen
and W. Brattain, is an electronic semiconductor device, that plays many functions. It is considered by many historians as the biggest invention in the XX
century. Thanks to
this invention, the
development of
electronics and its
multiple applications was possible,
because this device overcame greatly
the difficulties that other devices like
this one presented.
In the present day we can find transistors in all domestic appliances, such
as: radios, tv’s, tape recorders, VCR’S
and DVD’S , microwave ovens, cars,
computers, cell phones and many others. We can easily say that the communications era has been established
thanks to the transistor and this ha