I did not accidentally write the word "Transistor" with a capital letter.
If it were not for
John Bardeen ,
Walter Brattain and
William Shockley ,
who invented the transistor on December 16, 1947,
we would still be able to work with tube computers
and it is not known how the world would be.
Thanks to these wonderful people for using computers!
And this is how the first working transistor looked like:
