Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action [Bell Monograph]

Bardeen, J. ; Brattain, W. H.

Editore: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, New York, 1949

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First Separate Edition. 18, [2 (blank)] pages. 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Original blue and gray printed wrappers with 5 hole punches at the spine (as issued). A touch of wear to the extremities, and offsetting to rear panel (apparently from an adjacent Bell Monograph). Front cover clean, rear soiled. Clean internally. Wraps. This paper was first presented (in part) at the Chicago meeting of the American Physical Society, Nov. 26 and 27, 1948. While received by the publishing arm of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Dec. 27, 1948, this paper was first published in April in BOTH the Bell System Technical Journal 28, No. 2 (April 1949) AND The Physical Review Vol 75, pp. 1208-1225 (April 15, 1949). Since no one had yet found an offprint of either the Physical Review or BSTJ papers, we previously documented this Monograph as the first separate edition ("the closest one could get to an offprint of this paper"). But a kind customer just showed us his copy of the Physical Review offprint which is fantastic. Failing the discovery of a similar offprint from the BSTJ, the Physical Review offprint must precede the Bell System Monograph B-1659 offered here, since nearly all papers we know of were published in the Bell System Monograph series later than the BSTJ. We have lowered the price accordingly given the new publishing history. "The first comprehensive report on the transistor, which had been announced in three brief papers published in the Physical Review in the previous year. The transistor gradually replaced the bulkier vacuum tube, allowing heat reduction and miniaturization of electronic deviecs. Transistors began to be employed on a large scale in computer manufacturing in the late 1950s; they were eventually miniaturized and incorporated into microprocessors. Bardeen and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics with William Shockley.for their investigations of semiconductors (the materials of which transistors are made) and for their discovery of the transistor. " (Origins of Cyberspace) LITERATURE: Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, #450 (referencing the Bell System Technical Journal publication) COLLECTORS NOTES: The Bell Telephone System Monograph series offered a way to obtain individual articles by Bell scientists regardless of where their work was first published. Many Monographs significantly postdate the original article publication. Because of this, they rarely constitute the coveted (and traditional) article offprint. If the journal of record issued no offprint, the Monograph might be the first separate publication - the closest the collector can come to a traditional offprint. We have done our best to place each Monograph properly in the article s publishing history and welcome any corrections or additional information, especially regarding issues unknown to us.

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• Titolo: Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action [Bell Monograph]
• Editore: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1949
• Rilegatura: Wraps
• Edizione: First Separate Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
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