[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Transistor"

[Shapiro, Fred]

transistor (OED 1948 [1 Jul])

1948 _Bell Telephone Laboratories Technical Memoandum_ 28 May (Internet Archive)  Transistor. This is an abbreviated combination of the words "transconductance" or "transfer," and "variator."

Fred Shapiro


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