Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised) by Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised)

Lillian Hoddeson, Michael Riordan

352 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went in; in that moment the transistor was invented a...

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