Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...

Modern computers are continually revolutionising our lives by performing tasks that were deemed almost impossible decades ago. A long array of innovations has allowed modern computers, as we know them ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the transistor had not yet been invented, computers were analogue and made up of large mechanical gears. They were nothing like the electronic equipment that ...

On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.

We’re surrounded by transistors. They’re all around us. They’re in phones, car keys, microwaves, pacemakers and plenty more. The transistor is a revolutionary piece of technology that helped create ...

The assignee for this patent, patent number 8767164, is Chimei Innolux Corporation (TW). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The ...