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Could our modern transistor be traced back to alien technology?
Coincidence? Happenstance? Maybe so, maybe not?
In 1945 Shockley proposed an amplifier design in which an electric field would enhance the flow of electrons near the surface of a layer of silicon. His colleagues tried several versions of this "field effect" amplifier but without success. He assigned Bardeen and Brattain to find out why the idea didn’t work. It was a productive partnership—Bardeen, the theoretician, suggested experiments and interpreted the results, while Brattain built and ran the experiments. For two years, they did countless tests on different samples of silicon and germanium. Then in December, 1947, in a combination of brilliant theoretical insight and serendipitous accidents, Bardeen and Brattain produced the world’s first semiconductor amplifier—the point-contact transistor was born.
#1) In July 1947, an unusual craft crashed in the desert of New Mexico.
Coincidence? Happenstance? Maybe so, maybe not?
In 1945 Shockley proposed an amplifier design in which an electric field would enhance the flow of electrons near the surface of a layer of silicon. His colleagues tried several versions of this "field effect" amplifier but without success. He assigned Bardeen and Brattain to find out why the idea didn’t work. It was a productive partnership—Bardeen, the theoretician, suggested experiments and interpreted the results, while Brattain built and ran the experiments. For two years, they did countless tests on different samples of silicon and germanium. Then in December, 1947, in a combination of brilliant theoretical insight and serendipitous accidents, Bardeen and Brattain produced the world’s first semiconductor amplifier—the point-contact transistor was born.
#1) In July 1947, an unusual craft crashed in the desert of New Mexico.
