{"id":5556,"date":"2013-08-09T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/who-invented-the-transistor\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:14:37","slug":"who-invented-the-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/who-invented-the-transistor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented the Transistor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/adamsdetector.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/adamsdetector.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatriceco.com\/bti\/porticus\/bell\/belllabs_transistor1.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.beatriceco.com\/bti\/porticus\/bell\/belllabs_transistor1.html<\/strong><\/a><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>I dunno&#8230;. Roswell? Really? But I find myself attracted to anything that involves the use of iron pyrite and cats&#8217; whiskers in radio. Mike, KL7R, sent me a bunch of fools gold from Alaska and it turned out to be better than galena as a detector.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.beatriceco.com\/bti\/porticus\/bell\/belllabs_transistor1.html I dunno&#8230;. Roswell? Really? But I find myself attracted to anything that involves the use of iron pyrite and cats&#8217; whiskers in radio. Mike, KL7R, sent me a bunch of fools gold from Alaska and it turned out to be better than galena as a detector. Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/who-invented-the-transistor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Invented the Transistor?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,392,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-radio","category-homebrew-transistors","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}