The 1947 baby that spawned the electronics industry—the 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)