On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

Students work in groups to select an electronic invention and research who and what was involved in its development. Then they create a display that summarizes the main events surrounding the ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

I attended an AI conference in Seattle and participated in the 2025 IEDM and its celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ...

Vacuum tubes, invented in 1904, were used in early electronics and computing to control the flow of electrons. They were largely replaced by the invention of transistors in 1947. Both the vacuum tube ...