Over the last two issues, we have described many individuals who made vital contributions to electronics. Their work made modern technology possible. Many significant developments also emerged from universities, companies and other organisations, described in this third and final part of the series. by Dr David Maddison
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Last November, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor’s birth. Many articles about the early transistor developments have appeared, but I started to wonder about the earliest commercial transistor vendors. In Part 1 of this article, I discussed an incomplete list of attendees at a transistor…