reply to post by knows_but_doesnt
This is an exert from Bells own site...
Bell Labs (Who really invented the
transistor)
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Alien efforts
However, an entirely different origin has been proposed by Jack Shulman, president of the American Computer Company. Frankly, his theory is pretty
fantastic but it makes a rattling good read if nothing else. Here's what he says...
I grew up in the household of the head of Bell Labs, so I knew that there was something strange about the transistor because I knew Bill Shockley, and
Bill Shockley was something of a witless buffoon. There's no way he could have invented the transistor.
The symbol for the transistor is made up of three pieces: positive, positive and negative; or negative, negative and positive...silicon dioxide doped
with arsenic and boron, in 1947. Now, in 1947, doping things with boron was not easy. It required the sort of equipment that even Bell Labs in 1946
did not possess. They had this type of equipment at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, but it would have taken thousands and thousands and thousands of
man-hours to invent the transistor.
If you look back at it historically, what AT&T was claiming was that one day this "genius", William Shockley, was working with a rectifier; he
looked at it and he noticed it had unusual propensities, and there, bingo, he invented the transistor! He figured it out right there!
Anybody believe that story? Me neither. And I knew, because the administrative head of the transistor project was Jack Morton—the man at whose house
I was staying to go to school and whose sons I was friends with. He often commented on the fact that it was really a shame that those three idiots got
responsibility for the transistor and he didn't.
Mr Shulman goes on to claim that the transistor's real origin lies in technology recovered by the US Air Force from an alien spacecraft recovered at
Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. It's extremely controversial stuff and contrary to all received wisdom—but quite amusing of you don't take it too
seriously. Let’s move on rapidly, back down to earth and to minerals in particular.
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Hey.. come on... GUYS.... this is on BELLS own site...!!!
They are coming straight in a crooked way... But still bakin' the beans!! And there is way toooo much detail for it just.. dissing... the story..??!!
(My opinion)....
I have seen years ago mid 90's a supposed foto of the 3d crystal cicuitry that they were retro-engenering...????
True/false...?? I wasn't there....
In the face of the evidence of a "technological timeline" that had such a "Steep" increase in NEW technologies...?? All is possible... But what is
PROBABLE??? timing, in who's hands it ended up etc. etc...
The world is round so it give us lots of possiblities to express our ideas, dreams, thoughts, desires.....Probably the future is nothing like what we
think, hope or dream and is probably crazier, better and even further "wayout" than we could imagine...
Lets just keep on what we're all doing all the hard work needed (WITH A SMILE!?!) and see were we end up...!!!

Thanks for the "mad" company on this crazy ride!!
JTG