Originally posted by lme7898354
In regards to back-engineering I find it interesting that sometime after the alledged Roswell crash Bell Labs suddenly found a way to use silica sand as a way to construct a solid state device known as the transistor. Up until that point vacuum tube technology was basically light years behind such technology and there is no evidence that anyone was on the path to make a silicon device. Just saying it seems very strange that the so-called inventors at Bell labs suddenly got struck by lightning and the idea of the transistor just popped in their heads?
From wikipedia:
Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor (FET) in Canada in 1925, which was intended to be a solid-state replacement for the triode.[1][2] Lilienfeld also filed identical patents in the United States in 1926[3] and 1928.[4][5] However, Lilienfeld did not publish any research articles about his devices nor did his patents cite any specific examples of a working prototype. Since the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away, Lilienfeld's solid-state amplifier ideas would not have found practical use in the 1920s and 1930s, even if such a device were built.[6] In 1934, German inventor Oskar Heil patented a similar device.[7]
John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948.From November 17, 1947 to December 23, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States, performed experiments and observed that when two gold point contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, a signal was produced with the output power greater than the input.


And guess what, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT THAT!!! 