What's with the twisted leads on the first transistor?

You ain't real bright, boy.

Try IMDB and search "This Island Earth".

You probably don't even know what high K dielectrics are.

It is bonded at your "tip" according to the electrical diagram of it.

It looks like it is attached to me as well.

That is a zoom in on the original, hi res, which I wish was posted. I am still digging through your google search links. :-]

You'd be wrong again, AlwaysWrong.

Wooooosssshhhhhh!

Some kind of cosmetics? An inexpensive aftershave?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

ChairmanOfTheBored hath wroth:

The gap was 0.002" wide, which is kinda difficult to see (and draw).

The original should be somewhere on the Alacatel-Lucent-BellLabs web pile. However, I couldn't find anything better than the URL's already posted.

Here's a useless 20MBloat video from the Bell Labs site on the invention of the xsistor. Well it does have a dark and difficult to see picture of the reproduction:

This might be more useful:

It's a 3.2MBloat JPG of the inventors showing a mess of clipleads, fanstock clips, and junk on the table. I think the original transistor might be under the microscope, but it's difficult to be certain.

See the video clip at:

It's the clearest explanation I've found so far.

Yes 2 mils is hard to see even when it is right in front of you IRL.

I couldn't find a pic of the cigarette pack sized AM radio I had back in '69. I wish I could have found it. I even did a bunch more searches. It would likely help if I could remember the brand, but I can't. I was only nine. It was pretty cool though. I think I counted eleven transistors in it. It was smaller than a non-filter cig pack by about a cm. in length, and it had a chrome face and vertical bars for the grill. Brown plastic back. It was in a movie filmed in England that aired on the Sunday flics with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.

I miss it, 'cause I'm sure it would fetch a pretty penny now.

You've probably looked at this site already, but on the slim chance that you haven't:

There's a _lot_ of transistor radios there.

Ed

No, I hadn't, and thank you so much for that wonderful link/site.

I found it! THANKS!

It is actually much better quality than most of the plastic ones shown...

I miss that lil pup.

WOW! I wish I had the whole thing, which I didn't.

"You put yer weed in there!"

Somebody in Switzerland sold one on E-Bay for $17!

DANG!