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ELECTRONICS The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 28, nos. 1-4 in 1 vol. (including the famous "Semiconductor Issue", no. 3), New York, American Telephone and Telegraphy Journal, January-October 1949
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ELECTRONICS
The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 28, nos. 1-4 in 1 vol. (including the famous "Semiconductor Issue", no. 3), diagrams throughout (some folding), modern dark blue half morocco gilt, original front wrappers bound in, 8vo, New York, American Telephone and Telegraphy Journal, January-October 1949
Footnotes
THE INVENTION OF THE POINT-CONTACT TRANSISTOR. Issue number 3 is entirely devoted to the semiconductor, with articles by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley, who were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the subject. Other issues includes Claude E. Shannon's 'The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits', and Bardeen and Brattain's 'Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action'.





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