Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21 st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing. When you purchase through ...
Computing before the computer / Michael Williams -- Information processing before the computer, 1865-1950 / James W. Cortada -- The new electronic technology / Brian Randell -- Calculating machines / ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...