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BRATTAIN, William. "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action." In The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1949 (pp. 239-277). WITH:
BARDEEN, John, and BRATTAIN, William, and SHOCKLEY, William, et al. The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3. July, 1949. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. Two issues, both in original wrappers.
$3800. Two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 “Semiconductor Issue” dedicated entirely to the discuss of the transistor and semiconductor devices. “In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying to use ultrahigh frequency waves for telephone communications, and needed a more reliable detection method than the vacuum tube, which proved incapable of picking up rapid vibrations… John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley spearheaded the Bell Labs effort to develop a new means of amplification,” developing, by 1948, a novel device that would effectively amplify and control electric signals. “At roughly half an inch high, the first transistor was huge by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit onto a single silicon chip. But it was the very first solid state device capable of doing the amplification work of a vacuum tube, earning Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. More significantly, it spawned an entire industry and ushered in the Information Age, revolutionizing global society” (The American Physical Society). Ownership signature on front wrapper of July issue. Both issues are fine copies. Rare in wrappers in such outstanding condition. |