http://www.flickr.com/photos/johngineer/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:41:21 -0700 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:41:21 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2444/buddyicons/20459311@N03.jpg?1252017861#20459311@N03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/johngineer/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/johngineer/6116137343/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/johngineer/">johngineer</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johngineer/6116137343/" title="Bell Laboratories Transistor Name Memo, May 1948"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6204/6116137343_b423836034_m.jpg" width="60" height="240" alt="Bell Laboratories Transistor Name Memo, May 1948" /></a></p> <p>This is the memo sent to Bell Labs technical staff in May 1948, in which they were asked to vote on the name of the device which would eventually be called the transistor.<br /> <br /> This memo is probably (c) Bell Laboratories / Lucent / Alcatel / etc. I do not own this image. It is only here for reference and for the public interest.<br /> <br /> I got it from: <a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&amp;date=1211993094000&amp;url=http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra2/namememo.gif&amp;target=http://web.archive.org/web/20080528164454/users.arczip.com/rmcgarra2/namememo.gif" rel="nofollow">wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&amp;am...</a></p> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:41:21 -0700 2011-09-05T11:41:21-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (johngineer) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/6116137343 40.683436 -74.400143 40.683436 -74.400143 2456511 Bell Laboratories Transistor Name Memo, May 1948 <p>This is the memo sent to Bell Labs technical staff in May 1948, in which they were asked to vote on the name of the device which would eventually be called the transistor.<br /> <br /> This memo is probably (c) Bell Laboratories / Lucent / Alcatel / etc. I do not own this image. It is only here for reference and for the public interest.<br /> <br /> I got it from: <a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&amp;date=1211993094000&amp;url=http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra2/namememo.gif&amp;target=http://web.archive.org/web/20080528164454/users.arczip.com/rmcgarra2/namememo.gif" rel="nofollow">wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&amp;am...</a></p> johngineer history name memo electronics ee transistor lucent btl belllabs bardeen schockley brattain