William Shockley

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

American Physicist

Michio Kaku

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.

Robert Palmer

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

British Musician

Cher

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

American Musician

Alain Aspect

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

French Physicist

George Dyson

Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

American Historian

Klaus von Klitzing

The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in microelectronics.

German Physicist

Patti LuPone

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

Steve Wozniak

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

American Businessman

Ann Makosinski

Canadian Businesswoman

Understand that 'transistor' signifies key advancements in electronics and microprocessors.

Technological Evolution

Transistors are basic building blocks in circuits, much like bricks in a wall.

Foundational Component

The invention of the transistor allowed devices to become much smaller and portable.

Miniaturization

A 'transistor radio' often refers to older, collectible models, evoking nostalgia.

Retro Tech

The term 'transistor' in this context highlights the radio's portability and convenience.

Portable Music

Transistor radios are notable for their use of batteries, allowing handheld use.

Battery-Operated

 completely clay hopeless I mean I remember in the but my biology I was put in the front row hated being in the front row because you know you weren't direct contact with the person who's teaching you and I would have an ear phone in my house have one these first transistors because I burial two transistors sort came out when I was

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 So what we learned to do is to manipulate this electrical gradient, and the important thing is that we don't apply electricity. What we do instead was we turned on and off the little transistors -- they're actual ion channel proteins -- that every cell natively uses to set up this electrical state.

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 when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off. In this way, small variations in the input voltage can be used to quickly switch between high and low-output currents. The advantage of the transistor lies in its efficiency and compactness.

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 but to the most distant stars and galaxies. And one of the astonishing predictions of quantum mechanics, just by looking at the structure of atoms -- the same theory that describes transistors -- is that there can be no stars in the universe that have reached the end of their life

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 using molecular engineering and mimicking nature down at the nanoscale dimensions of our transistors. As I said, the conventional manufacturing takes every tiny feature of the circuit and projects it onto the silicon. But if you look at the structure of an integrated circuit,

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 developed the transistor the integrated circuit and eventually the Mac and the PC that we all want to buy and that's why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead

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 the idea of plastic, the idea of a laser, the idea of transistors. They've all been combined together in this technology. And it's this combination, this cumulative technology, that intrigues me, because I think it's the secret to understanding what's happening in the world.

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 Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,

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 our profound potential for being, that the number of transistors on a circuit can be doubled and doubled, but our capacity for compassion and humanity and serenity and love is somehow limited is a false and suffocating choice.

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 detectors of the external and internal world, the transducers that convert information to electrical impulses, the wires that transmit these impulses, the transistors that gate the information and turn up or down the volume-