Electronics: Transistors When was the transistor invented? By Whom? Where? And Why? The transistor was invented by three men William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain in 1947 at Bell Laboratories. The Invention of the transistor was invented and it could perform all the things that a vacuum tube could do and it was also more reliable and better. The transistor replaced what other component? Describe the component and explain why it was replaced. The vacuum …showed first 75 words of 493 total…

…showed last 75 words of 493 total…semiconductors, it works in the same way with n-p-n except that all polarities are reversed. Describe the effect the transistor had on the electronics industry. Give examples. The transistor had a major effect in the 20th century for electronics, it was one of the important inventions at that time. The transistor took over the vacuum tube, that is why the vacuum tube isn?t used much. Bibliography: http://www.101science.com/transistor.htm Microsoft Encarta 2004