Blazing the Trail to the Information Age: 75th Anniversary of the Transistor

Transistors are the main component of the microchips at the core of all computers where they are busy converting every kind of information, words, numbers, pictures, music, into strings of ones and zeroes. But the story of this small-but-mighty device begins with a problem that needed solving, and three Bell Labs scientists who took on that challenge. The IEEE Electron Devices Society brings you this short video commemorating the 75th anniversary of the transistor!