The Transition from Vacuum Tubes to Transistors
In short: The shift from bulky vacuum tubes to solid-state transistors enabled the miniaturization of computers and the birth of the Digital Age.
A 1:41 short film in the series “Before It Changed Everything”.
Sources used in this film: Defense Technical Information Center, “DTIC ADA053402: Storage Reliability of Missile Materiel Program, Electronic Vacuum Tube Analysis. : Defense Technical Information Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive”; MIT Institute for Plasma and Fusion (IPC), “The Transistor, an Emerging Invention: Bell Labs as a Systems Integrator Rather Than a ‘House of Magic’ | IPC”; Britannica, “Transistor - Innovation, Bell Labs, Electronics | Britannica”; IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, “IC History - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society”; Computer History Museum, “Timeline | The Silicon Engine | Computer History Museum”; IEEE Spectrum, “The Lost History of the Transistor”; Smithsonian Magazine, “The Brief History of the ENIAC Computer”.
Sources used in this film
- Defense Technical Information Center — DTIC ADA053402: Storage Reliability of Missile Materiel Program, Electronic Vacuum Tube Analysis. : Defense Technical Information Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive · View →
- MIT Institute for Plasma and Fusion (IPC) — The Transistor, an Emerging Invention: Bell Labs as a Systems Integrator Rather Than a ‘House of Magic’ | IPC · View →
- Britannica — Transistor - Innovation, Bell Labs, Electronics | Britannica · View →
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society — IC History - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society · View →
- Computer History Museum — Timeline | The Silicon Engine | Computer History Museum · View →
- IEEE Spectrum — The Lost History of the Transistor · View →
- Smithsonian Magazine — The Brief History of the ENIAC Computer · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC ADA053402: Storage Reliability of Missile Materiel Program, Electronic Vacuum Tube Analysis. : Defense Technical Information Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Also: MIT Institute for Plasma and Fusion (IPC): The Transistor, an Emerging Invention: Bell Labs as a Systems Integrator Rather Than a ‘House of Magic’ | IPC
- Also: Britannica: Transistor - Innovation, Bell Labs, Electronics | Britannica
- Also: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society: IC History - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
- Also: Computer History Museum: Timeline | The Silicon Engine | Computer History Museum
- Also: IEEE Spectrum: The Lost History of the Transistor
- Also: Smithsonian Magazine: The Brief History of the ENIAC Computer
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