Akela, my female German Shepherd Dog, shown here at 10 months old. This is Brutus, my black Alsatian who sadly passed away at the age of 10. He lived in South Africa in a city by the sea, which was ironic since he hated water. He was a wonderful, intelligent and kind friend who will be sorely missed.
Sony, who is often credited with developing the first portable radio, didn't come out with theirs until 1957. Don Pies Regency TR1 Website/via. It didn't take long for transistors to take over and for them to shrink down to integrated circuits to the point where you can now get an entire Radio Shack in an iPhone. It all started 60 years ago with this.
They stood on the shoulders of the great inventors of the 19th century to produce the greatest invention of the our time: the transistor. The transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Telephone Laboratories by a team led by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley.he Transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research. Web site that accompanies a Public Broadcasting System television show about the history of the transistor.