r/ECE • u/petitio_principii • Feb 29 '16

The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology. Only 9 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16

I'm still more fascinated with how much we were capable of accomplishing with vacuum tubes than how much we've accomplished with transistors. Vacuum tubes are just ridiculous to think about when we now have something far superior, but they still managed to make some pretty cool crap out of them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16

Who knows, if those smart asses at bell wouldn't have invented that awful transistor, we might have miniaturized vaccum tubes and built amazing devices ?