SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, TWO WORKS BY THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, 1949

i. [Semiconductor Issue.] The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume 28, Number 3, July 1949, 8vo, printed wrappers, library stamps, (bought from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1996), [T&W A72, B86, F29, R131, S110, H125 bis]ii. Bell Telephone System Technical Publications: Some contributions to transistor electronics. New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1949, 4to, printed wrappers, punch holes, (Weinreb Collection, Bloomsbury Auctions, 28 October 1999, lot 250, Erwin Tomash), [T&W A73, B85, H125, R132, S111, S114]

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A KEY GROUP OF PAPERS ON THE INVENTION OF THE TRANSISTOR, a component in all modern electronic devices and one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century. The authors of these papers include William Shockley (1910-1989) and John Bardeen (1908-1991), who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for their work on semi-conductors and transistors.