| The 1947 baby that spawned the electronics industrythe first transistor (courtesy of AT&T) |
Jack Kilby's 1958 invention, the integrated circuit (courtesy of Texas Instruments) |
Motorola's very first pager, the Handie-Talkie radio pager from 1955 |
| 1954: The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency made by IDEA Corp. (courtesy of Texas Instruments) |
In 1957, this IBM electronic data processing machine, the T04, was used to make computations for aeronautical research (courtesy of NASA) |
An analog oscilloscope, the GM 5666, vintage 1957, offers lots of rotary switches to control its settings but only a small CRT face to view signals (courtesy of Phillips Research) |