The number of transistors it takes to even watch this video on KZread would blow the minds of the people who made it.

@FlorenceSlugcat

Жыл бұрын

In total, it is most likely at the very least multiple hundreds of billions. Your phone itself may have a couple billions, if its a new gen, but then, add the ones in your modem, the whole routing of your ISP network, the youtube servers, which likely involves alot alot of communication between different servers internally. Each step on the way to get it delivered to you adds anywhere between a few millions to multiple billions.

@youbigtubership

Жыл бұрын

@@FlorenceSlugcat It all happened by accident too.

@culbyj3665

Жыл бұрын

It wouldnt be possible

@skeetrix5577

Жыл бұрын

like a gagillion l

@grotekleum

Жыл бұрын

The number in the new Apple M2Max chip is put at 67 billion.

"Someday, they'll build computers that fit into a good sized room..."

@AntonisDimopoulos

5 жыл бұрын

No way! That would be swell!

@Cybeonix

5 жыл бұрын

We can always dream

@bisbeejim

5 жыл бұрын

It will never replace the horse.

@robertpryor7225

5 жыл бұрын

Sure Buck Rogers, hold on to that dream.

@carlbelli7356

5 жыл бұрын

Gee,What Will They Think Of Next ?

This... is surprisingly good science communication. No dumbing down to a patronizing level, practical demonstrations of advantages, and a very solid brief history of how we got to where there were in 1953. Really fascinating little look

@midshipman8654

Жыл бұрын

Its really interesting how well these mid century (40s, 50s, 60s) topic introductory videos communicate their topic for lay understanding. the communication skills present are really something to marvel at in themselves.

@classicalextremism

Жыл бұрын

Difference in philosophy. The layman was not held in utter contempt at the time so documentaries were crafted with different expectations. If you think people are idiots you will produce idiotic content for them. And people are what they consume... so...

@burtony3

Жыл бұрын

Science was considered cool then, and especially radio technology for the average person. Long before popular culture labeled scientists as nerds, devoid of social skills.

@dububro

Жыл бұрын

There are a few major cultural differences, one being that people read more often.

@cloudtaker633

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the boomers are right. We are getting dumber.

I happened to be born in 1953. My father worked at Illinois Bell Telephone and took me into the Chicago telephone exchange at a young age. He showed me the banks and banks of relays that were switching telephone calls, and mentioned that there was a new thing that would replace the relays and switch thousands of times faster. A few years later I bugged him to buy me a book on transistors. I only vaguely understood it even after many hours of re-reading it.

@dmann55398

Жыл бұрын

Those switching relays remained in use for decades in many places. Quite a few were replaced by integrated circuits in the 80's and 90's. The amplifiers for voice and what powered the relays went to solid state as soon as practical.

@Critical-Thinker895

Жыл бұрын

I was also born that year but by the 1970's I was building radio kits and we were still using tubes. The phone company got a huge jump on everyone else.

@trevormoffat4054

11 ай бұрын

My Dad also worked at the telephone exchange. He took me in quite a few times and I got to see all the technology they had there in the early 80’s. Probably a lot of it was still the same stuff from the 50’s and 60’s at that stage.

@kirk1968

11 ай бұрын

Awesome history, thank you for sharing. I was born in 1968, but have often read about the may breakthroughs created at Bell Labs (same company?)...I have fuzzy memories of going to a local Bell phone company and seeing all of the current tech in person. How blessed we are to experience the transition from analog to digital!

@somedumbozzie1539

11 ай бұрын

I worked in relay exchanges in 76, it was like walking around inside a chipset. Malvern exchange was a classic at the time Cross bar equipment was in coming in and all looked very Space 1999. Malvern exchange on the other hand looked like something from Harry Potter. Jumper leads every where like a spiders web that fixed faults that but no one knew why so don't bother logging it. There were line selectors from before the war still running strong WW1 that is refurbed in the late 40's.

A crucial step in the development of the digital cat picture.

@henmich

2 жыл бұрын

And biker porn... don't forget biker porn...

@christiaankoningen4632

2 жыл бұрын

@@henmich 🤨

@NiffirgkcaJ

Жыл бұрын

@@kwekker what did he say?

@kwekker

Жыл бұрын

@@NiffirgkcaJ I can't remember, sorry

@NiffirgkcaJ

Жыл бұрын

@@kwekker I see, it's fine.

I was ten when this short was made. They would show such films in a school auditorium and every student sat in rapt attention. Oh, how we could not wait for that golden future. Oh, how we look back to what seems a golden past.

@ammerudgrenda

3 жыл бұрын

nice words!

@Aiijuin

3 жыл бұрын

It’s true.

@lucasmorrow3514

3 жыл бұрын

Grass is always greener

@That_Awesome_Guy1

3 жыл бұрын

The 60's were the peak of human civilization.

@SuperIliad

3 жыл бұрын

@@That_Awesome_Guy1 This is from the 1950s. Great changes in the 20th century occurred mid-decade. The first half of the '60's resembled the second half of the 1950s. The latter part of the 1960's to the second half of the 1970s saw the dissolution of all that held together societies since time immemorial.

These 1950s videos explaining and showing off new technology were amazing. This was a great era of scientific and engineering discovery and trials. Most of what we use and apply now stem from this work. Straight to the point clear and concise info.

@jamessmith6162

6 ай бұрын

And this is the teaching methodology we need to get back to, if we are going to advance far more than those times. This to me was when learning was fun and fundamental.

@nonegone7170

3 ай бұрын

@@jamessmith6162 Completely vague comment that's tinted by nostalgia goggles.

@jamessmith6162

3 ай бұрын

@@nonegone7170 Wow, talk about completely vague, you are way beyond your own statement!!! 😳😳🤯

The most underrated piece of Technology in Human History. The Transistor literally runs our Modern World, every single modern Electronic Device runs on Transistors. Without it, our Civilization would still be stuck in the 1940's Technology.

I can't see this thing catching on.

@MasterKoala777

5 жыл бұрын

Xerdoz , let's go buy shares of stock in IBM :-)

@tobbleboii5988

5 жыл бұрын

i love imagining what was on peoples mind when they watched this back in the 1950s did they expect this rapid coming of transistors?

@roygalaasen

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, useless invention!

@user2C47

5 жыл бұрын

Electric cars will never catch on. **Becomes illegal to manufacture cars with gasoline engines*

@gertraba4484

5 жыл бұрын

reverse engineered from the Roswell UFO...............................

Staring at the phone in my hand. Billions of transistors inside. *_Tell me your secrets_*

@peterbelanger4094

5 жыл бұрын

"Such a versatile machine could be fit into a good size room"......LOL

@cloudenvying

5 жыл бұрын

surface mounted transistors

@Whosaids0

5 жыл бұрын

No way, but I will tell you yours.

@MasterKoala777

5 жыл бұрын

And yet most people use all that computing power to play LOL. 😂

@Whosaids0

5 жыл бұрын

That is what they want, but knowing the full capabilities would warrant around 2.5 seconds of concern relative to the next knuckle heading yelling "squirrel" then there goes everyone's attention again.

Those who were "looking forward to the age just beyond the age of electronics." That is some prescient writing. The narrator nailed it there. That is the "computer age" or the "information age" he was talking about. He just didn't know what it would be called or how it would unfold, but he could see it on the horizon. If you've ever been far out into the ocean or the Gulf on a boat at night, when you head back in, you might see a distant glow. Then as you proceed closer to the shore, the glow becomes a collection of glows, then a constellation of sharp lights of various colors as you approach your dock or harbor. These dudes could see the glow. We are now at the shore and can see what they dreamed of.

@spankynater4242

11 ай бұрын

That sure was a lot of words.

@stuckerfam

11 ай бұрын

@@spankynater4242 I was in the zone. 😀

@kevinmahernz

10 ай бұрын

Well said.

@johnalexander7490

9 ай бұрын

In the zone for sure! What a great way to express how the movie maker may well have intended it to be ... we can see what The Glow really stood for. Nice to be a part of that glow. :)

@Esgelrothion

8 ай бұрын

What a charming way to describe it! And you're right on!

My father was a radio engineer in a Japanese electronics company in the 1960s. When I was a child, I was interested in the textbooks my father used, and this video explains some of the same things that were in those textbooks, which makes me nostalgic.

@stephenradley9798

11 ай бұрын

Do you know happen to know the name of those textbooks still?

@yamanekomin

11 ай бұрын

@@stephenradley9798 Yes, one of the books is still with me as a scanned PDF. 池原典利「トランジスタ活用事典」("Encyclopedia of Transistor Applications" by Noritoshi Ikehara, 1959). There were explanations of transistor principles and structures, circuit design techniques, and finally circuit diagrams of various sets sold at the time. I later learned that the pocket radio described in that chapter, named TR-610 was the legendary product that made SONY world famous.

@halfdome4158

7 ай бұрын

@@yamanekomin 😃😃😃😃😃🙂😃The first transistor pocket radio was made in America. A beautiful radio. Regency TR-1. The Japanese just copy everything. So embarrassing.

@RedzeeTV

7 ай бұрын

​@@halfdome4158 an unrelated comment to the discussion that paints you as rude. how embarrassing

@eren_yeager9927

5 ай бұрын

@@halfdome4158 You're just racist, Japan has improved all those technologies AND made better, imagine being so spiteful

7:59 - a portable television the size of a suitcase! What wonders await us!

@HadleyCanine

5 жыл бұрын

Watching this video on my cellphone made me feel a little ashamed at how much I'd been taking technology for granted.

@user2C47

5 жыл бұрын

A portable computer that could fit in your hand, with unfathomable processing power.

@gertraba4484

5 жыл бұрын

and cooking food by radiation that produces NO HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ccandrew111

5 жыл бұрын

There were actually portable CRT televisions that looked similar to that lol. Anyone born after 2005 probably has no recollection of cathode ray tubes however

@xaiano794

5 жыл бұрын

@@ccandrew111 oh I remember, but I think we're just a touch further on now.

I restore antique radios, including a few early transistor radios. Some of those early transistor radios proudly stated how many transistors they had in them. I got a chuckle when I learned that some manufacturers, in an effort to make their units seem impressive, would design in transistors being used as diodes, or they were not really doing anything useful, but by gosh, we'll advertise that it has 12 transistors because it sounds cool!

@Bugaboo-wq5sc

Жыл бұрын

Similar to 'turbo' in 80's and 90's cars. Everything was turbo back then

@ananda_miaoyin

Жыл бұрын

@@Bugaboo-wq5sc How about Honda with the CVCC on the backs of cars? Like anyone that is not a car geek or engineer even knows what it means!

@patricknesbitt4003

Жыл бұрын

I had an old early '70s no name walkie talkie that advertised 7 transistors but one actually had all 3 leads soldered together on one pad.

@davidedmundson8402

Жыл бұрын

I had a 6-transistor radio (early to mid-60s) and it was hot stuff.

@martymctry20

Жыл бұрын

​@@patricknesbitt4003 That was a builtin backup transistor 😊

My father was born in 1927. After serving in the navy, he went to college on the GI Bill. He became an engineer who worked for Western Electric and Bell labs. As this video shows, this time saw rapid development of electronics. Decades later, I worked for Northern Telecom, who invented the Digital Multiplex Switch for modern computerized telephone systems. Kind of interesting how I followed in his footsteps. What a great experience most people take for granted these days

In my opinion, learning to manipulate electrons was one of the most important advances in human technology.

@brendawilliams8062

2 ай бұрын

The flower of life is a passion and computer science an echo

I don't know why but these Black and white vintage videos with an American narrator always gives a calming vibe.

@jerbear7952

Ай бұрын

It's because it's produced with Kalm-Tone By DuPont

@Ronnock

Ай бұрын

Lol​@@jerbear7952

@arconeagain

14 күн бұрын

Mmm, to the masses, everything is okay.

@deanpd3402

11 күн бұрын

@@arconeagain ...was okay. Not anymore but such is life.

@arconeagain

11 күн бұрын

@@deanpd3402 you're not wrong, the world is Fed after this last couple of generations. I don't mean to insult you if you fall under these categories.

5:13 *Very loud screeching tone - Brings speaker to ear

@FerCerealz

5 жыл бұрын

Emanuel Donalds I lol’ed

@ALFAGOMMA

5 жыл бұрын

But when he becomes deaf, he can insert a transistorized hearing piece into his ear.

@adamstanley4778

5 жыл бұрын

hmmm yes

@vaidasspu

5 жыл бұрын

vintage ear rape

@therealpeter2267

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm yis zis sound is sum real gourmet ear rape, let me get a closer listen...

"Such a versatile machine could fit into a good sized room" Its incredible how far the world has come.

@MrQuequito

8 ай бұрын

and now a machine, my phone, that has thousands of times the proccesing power fits in my hand, in fact, im writing this comment with it, which funnily enough, its primary task is to make phone calls, everything else is... extra

@sethtenrec

8 ай бұрын

@@MrQuequito it’s primary purpose is to access the Internet. Making phone calls is just a sidenote.

I'm slowly waking up to the realization how big of an impact Bell Labs has had on the shaping of our era. Incredible...

@jaymyers9396

5 ай бұрын

Amen!

05:15 The first "RIP headphones users" ever.

@ThatGamePerson

5 жыл бұрын

*1954 Colo--- wait*

@CanthusOfCandE

5 жыл бұрын

Read this just in time, enjoy the thumbs up for the heads up.

@darthrex6267

2 жыл бұрын

W

The invention of the transistor is an amazing moment in history. It wasn't an accidental discovery, they were trying for this. All the electronics we take for granted now are based on this.

@barowt

11 ай бұрын

If they knew all of the electronics we just toss in the trash if it doesn't work, the inventors would be sad to know what we do with their hard work.

@kriss3d

11 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely electronics is really quite few different kinds of components. And with that you can build anything once you know how they work. It's much like Lego really. As an engineer, when I first learned how they function I felt like I could build anything you could Imagine.

@marcdraco2189

11 ай бұрын

@@kriss3d People think I'm clever when I string together a bunch of (as you say, Lego blocks) to produce a usable circuit. I'm just depressed that the humble JFET is going out of favour- lost mostly to MOSFETS, yet in audio they are currently irreplaceable.

@Sciurus

11 ай бұрын

Guess no one has heard of Dr Thomas Henry Moray and how he actually invented the Germanium transistor more than 20 years before his assistant went to work for Dr Shockley. The patent office refused to give him a patent and whether that was due to biases of the electronics community of the time or the Inventions and Research department of the Navy wanting cutting edge tech kept secret for their own personal uses we will never know but the short book authored by him titled "Beyond the Light Rays: the Sea of Energy that the Earth Floats In" is worth a read for all students of electrical and electronic's engineering history!

I used to have a neighbor who worked on computers when they still used vacuum tubes. He said that no matter what they did, there were always a few of them that were burned out, so the thing never worked properly. By the way, I still have an old transistor radio somewhere and yes, it works. The first record player that I received from my parents as a child had a mainspring to power it. Go figure.

@medexamtoolsdotcom

11 ай бұрын

That's one of the problems about having a hot cathode in a vacuum, it's inevitably going to have a limited lifetime, rather like an incandescent light bulb.

@robertromero8692

11 ай бұрын

The term "bug" is derived from something that happened in 1947. Engineers working on Harvard University's Mark II computer discovered a bug caused by a moth trapped in a relay.

@williamnavarre8169

10 ай бұрын

​@@robertromero8692If you look at the note they made at the time, it's clear they knew they were making a pun. So while Grace Hopper claimed that that was the first use of the term, I dont think it's actually true.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

7 ай бұрын

The war time Colossus code breaking computer was never turned off, heating and cooling caused the valve/tube failures.

I grew up with this. Dad was a radio technician for the Canadian military. As tubes became less and less used, and the transistor being integrated more and more, entire rooms of equipment were replaced by small boxes that didn't need air conditioning. But tubes are not affected by EMP radiation like transistors are. And tubes can handle huge amounts of power for radio transmitters and rock band amplifiers.

I remember them asking the inventor on the 50th anniversary if there was a regretted application of the transistor. He said the birthday cards that play tunes.

The most nostalgic part of this is seeing an American factory worker building transistors.

@extremeanalogmusic6296

3 жыл бұрын

:(

@That_Awesome_Guy1

3 жыл бұрын

This was before we were sold out to China.

@honkhonk8009

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly fuck china. Deadass just cut trade ties with the country. just a detriment to humanity.

@daveduffy2823

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, now it’s wherever the labor is cheapest and no environmental laws.

@wiscgaloot

3 жыл бұрын

There are still several semiconductor fabs here in the US. Micron in Idaho, Intel has them in several places. They aren't in Silly Con Valley anymore, but we do make semiconductors.

I remember back in the mid-fifties, a neighbor bought one of the first transistor radios and we all thought it was mind-blowing that something so small could operate.

Amazing to look back at the old analog phone system and how much of the modern world it once drove. At 46 I am at least old enough to recall the importance and reliability of the analog home telephone system. Transistors, T1 lines, and even the Unix operating system...once upon a time the phone companies were real powerhouses of R&D! Nice to see this preserved in film.

I remember in the 60s portable radios were called “Transistor Radios”. Sometime in the 70s they seemed to change this to “Solid State” or sometimes they’d call it “IC or integrated circuit”. They definitely improved electronics. Our old vacuum tube tv used to have to warm up before you could watch it. Often it would start buzzing or humming. The vacuum tubes were failing almost monthly. They were a big nuisance. Our corner pharmacy had a vacuum tube testing machine where you could remove the tubes from your TV and test them. If you discovered one was bad, there was a cabinet underneath the machine containing boxes of new tubes that you could take home and plug in. What a nuisance but at least we had TV.

@stevencooper2464

3 жыл бұрын

How far we have come: Once upon a time, when you turned on your television, you had to wait for the tubes to warm up. Now, you have to wait for the CPU to boot up. When will we have instant TV?

@mcplutt

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevencooper2464 We had instant TV's for a pretty long time, before Smart TV's.

@OriginalGrasshopper

3 жыл бұрын

I still knew them as “transistor radios” throughout the entire 1970’s.

@williamwilson6499

3 жыл бұрын

And whatever happened To Tuesday and so slow? Going down the old mine with a Transistor radio

@Kenny-bw2cz

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevencooper2464 you do have instant tv. My smart tv opens right away. A laptop or computer can be instant if it's in sleep mode

John Bardeen, one of the three physicists who invented the transistor, is the only man in history to win two Nobel prizes in physics.

@alanrogs3990

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@amymoriyama6616

2 жыл бұрын

It was a revolutionary invention that forever changed the world in more ways that people of that time could even imagine.

@deepgeny1

2 жыл бұрын

That's so sexist and mysogynistic.... Even this day, there is not a single woman who got a Nobel prize in physics... Let alone two...

@sbalogh53

2 жыл бұрын

@@deepgeny1 ... Well maybe if they tried a little harder? There always has to be a woke snowflake in the comments section.

@daves2520

2 жыл бұрын

@@deepgeny1 Actually Madam Curie shared the 1903 Nobel prize in physics for her work in radioactivity.

My goodness. That was an era so full of optimism for the possible future! You simply get overcharged with this wonderful positivity and bright outlook for the years to come. Thank you for sharing this great video.

@ATMAtim

11 ай бұрын

Isn't it a crying shame how it is now days? We lost that magic and will never recover.

@abdulsalim9942

4 ай бұрын

@@ATMAtim Today, everything is just business. Have you noticed that radio was a luxury thing at the beginning. Then gradually it advances to be affordable for regular consumer. Every invention happens like that only. But today, when you propose any new thing to some tech exhibitions, the first thing investors ask is, how many of these can you sell to consumers !!!

The TV repair man was common in my childhood, he had a big box of valves/vacuum tubes and he would change the ones in the TV one by one until he found which one had burnt out, like a light bulb, the light bulb is becoming a thing of the past too! Small radios had ‘Solid State’ labels on them meaning no valves/tubes, a customer knew they would run on cheapish disposable batteries which seemed an advance back then.

I remember -- probably around 1960, I would have been seven years old -- I had been a good boy at the dentist, and my mom bought me a "transistor radio." I wasn't much bigger than my hand, and I could listen to the radio on it! Amazing. People were awed by it. I think it even had a ear plug, so I could listen to it privately.

@ronz101

10 ай бұрын

Still have a Zenith 1958 (long distance) transistor radio. Still working . Also an early 1960's Panasonic table radio I use everyday.

@oonmm

9 ай бұрын

Privacy is the last word you think about when talking about the information age today.

@unclej3910

9 ай бұрын

My dad owned a TV and appliance store from about 1959 until 1973. When I was a kid in the mid to late 1960’s, transistor radios were still a new, exciting thing. TV’s still had vacuum tubes but they were starting to switch to transistors at about the time my dad sold the business.

@modgsb220

8 ай бұрын

When I was about 13 (1960) after I had been "playing "with valve technology, my elder brother and I built a superhetrodyne transistor radio. Bearing in mind we didnt have electricity until I was 10. My brother and I went different ways in life, he died from cancer 15 years ago, a week after my sister died of same a week later. I miss the simple circuitry of transistors, but not as much as I miss my brother and sister.

@GetMeThere1

8 ай бұрын

@@modgsb220 I hear ya. I have the bittersweet alternative to your situation: I have no brothers or sisters -- even though I always wanted them (and so did my mom and dad). Fortunately for me, my neighborhood was full of kids my age, so I had plenty of kids who were nearly like brothers and sisters -- although I haven't heard from any of them since high school...

And now I leave the house every day with billions of transistors on my person.

@dgjm7129

5 жыл бұрын

Nice English man

@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637

5 жыл бұрын

well.. the single transistor is a piece, a chip is a piece as well, the point is that transistors are impresses chemically with masks like a photo, but not enlarging, miniaturizing the image on silicon, not anymore germanium that is costly send with my Android phone

@AexisRai

5 жыл бұрын

@@dgjm7129 The estimate of transistors is accurate, and "on one's person" is perfectly good idiomatic English.

@dgjm7129

5 жыл бұрын

@@AexisRai but he said "on my person" i think he ment to said "on my hand"???

@mstchiefa7892

5 жыл бұрын

@DGJM no he meant to say "on my person".

I remember getting my first transistor radio in about 1959 when I was 12. It was about the size of a thin lunchbox. I took it to school thinking I was so cool and we listed to the World Series game - they were played in the afternoon back then - on the way home! (First night game was Oct 1971).

I remember that 50 years ago I was desperately looking to buy high-power transistors and thyristors, because I wanted to make an amplification station with a light organ. We are also looking for aluminum plates to cool the components! What beautiful times! Now go to the store and get what you want

Amazing how much technology was accomplished in the 20th century.I could watch old 16mm movies like this all day. I grew up in the 50s and 60s watching these educational films in school. I was the kid who always got the run the movie projector.

@robertm2000

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!! I was fascinated by recording and reproduction of both sound and video, and ended up getting a Master's Degree in Educational media. 55 years in the field and I was STILL a projector pusher!

@daddymuggle

5 жыл бұрын

I got to be one of, I think, three or four licenced projectionists at high school. Later I became a projectionist in a cinema, on 35mm machines that were already outdated. OHPs were the best thing ever, so funny figuring out which way things went.

@LeMustache

5 жыл бұрын

You had a movie projector in the 60s? My school couldn't afford one until like 2010

@robertm2000

5 жыл бұрын

@@LeMustache Do you mean perhaps a digital LCD projector? The movie projectors I was talking about are 16 mm film projectors that used actual movies, similar to what theaters showed throughout the early 20th Century, not from DVDs or videotape.

@LeMustache

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertm2000 I mean any type of projector. We were using nothing but a blackboard

Thank you transistor. I owe my entire life to you.

@robertpryor7225

3 жыл бұрын

Science is a hoax, JK

@xiro6

3 жыл бұрын

that night your parent´s TV stopped working because a transistor failed.

@cccccc9929

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, me too!!! 😉

Truly a documentary actually understating the potential of what it is talking about.

@brettbuck7362

11 ай бұрын

They didn't fully grasp the implications, either. They just saw a more efficient replacement for a tube - nothing that would have been inconceivable or hopelessly impractical without transistors).

cant wait for this to come out, its gonna be a game changer

this should be played for every single child entering middle school science / math. Know your roots kids...

@koilamaoh4238

5 жыл бұрын

We're to busy adding the bible into our schools, no science byebye.

@DoctorBlankenstein

5 жыл бұрын

crk1121 what state?

@robertpryor7225

5 жыл бұрын

Many of us think we're smart because we can operate a cell phone, but know nothing about how it works and couldn't build anything. Whoever invented vacuum tubes what's a genius.

@robertpryor7225

5 жыл бұрын

@@DoctorBlankenstein ...solid state?

@LongPigCafe

5 жыл бұрын

@crk1121 just not a very good one

Imagine nowadays we can easily put a computer inside their “transistors”. This is magic.

@jamesslick4790

2 жыл бұрын

@@things_leftunsaid 🤔😳🤯

@MikehMike01

Жыл бұрын

@@things_leftunsaid wow you're so funny that's so funny that's so unbelievably funny and original and creative and funny and no one has ever said that before and you're so funny and creative and original and funny wow

@onlythewise1

Жыл бұрын

@@MikehMike01 idiots always say same things like a parrot

@joestrike8537

Жыл бұрын

@@MikehMike01 Sarcasm, especially from 9 months ago doesn't age very well.

@StephenShawCanada

Жыл бұрын

The only aspect that has changed is they are made smaller; it still performs the same function in anything.

Technology always progresses rapidly once we discover or invent something. It's amazing that from the first flight in 1903, we went to the Moon in 1969, and from the first big transistor in 1947, we now have transistors about 10 nanometers in size, which is only like 5x the size of the diameter of a DNA strand which is about 2 nanometers.

Memories of operating the projector during grade school. I loved these films. Remember the Bell and Howe films?

Imagine someone told the narrator they watched his talking motion picture on their phone. He would be so confused.

A major milestone in electronics. An important bridge to the integrated circuit. Yes, even the humble vacuum tube was a 20th century marvel. We owe a lot to these inventors of the past. Controlling the flow of electrons is still something most people even today haven't a clue about.

@medexamtoolsdotcom

11 ай бұрын

That first decade of the 20th century, that was the decade of invention like no other. The vacuum tube, the car, the airplane (if you want to give credit to the Wright Bros and not Percy Pilcher), the vacuum cleaner, humidity controlled air conditioning, and the crayon. Interesting thing though, the vacuum tube wasn't the first amplifier either though. A relay is in fact an amplifier, albeit a digital one. That is, an electrical contact is made by turning on an electromagnet which pulls 2 pieces of metal together, and then the power that controls can be much much more than the power used in the electromagnet. So even without the vacuum tube, a lot of things can be done.

@WastingTime1878

9 ай бұрын

A major milestone is an understatement, imo this is the most impactful invention ever made.

These old videos do a really good job of explaining these concepts.

I learn more from these Classic vids in 10 mins more than weeks in school

In the late 50's my parents gave me a portable AM radio that I could put in my pocket and it ran on a 9 volt battery (a new battery invented for that very purpose). I thought it was a miracle.

@dielaughing73

3 жыл бұрын

I remember an old boy telling me about parties they used to have on the beach around then, where everyone brought their tiny transistor radios and all of tuned into the same station at max volume. The sound must have been pretty terrible but it would have been a lot of fun.

@martipk

Жыл бұрын

@@dielaughing73 as its a radio signal you would have perfect synchronization between all the radios so you would definitely have a nice surround sound effect, but yeah the crackling was probably bad on those portable ones

@Bugaboo-wq5sc

Жыл бұрын

@@martipk -- in 1977, I took one of the very first calculators to school and brought it to my math class and got major shit from my teacher lol. And nowadays you can't even go to school without a laptop. How times change.

@firelord3

Жыл бұрын

@@Bugaboo-wq5sc not to mention that those laptops are more powerful then all the super computers of the late 70's combined.

@onlythewise1

Жыл бұрын

@@Bugaboo-wq5sc no way i brought mine in 1970 first calculator to school no problem

I love when he says "the wonders of our electronic age" back then in 1953 :)), I wish he lived long enough to see first smartphone.

@huaweivideographer6756

7 жыл бұрын

fuck

@ohger1

7 жыл бұрын

Our grand kids are going to laugh at our smartphones... Every generation thinks they are at the pinnacle of technological advancement.

@decaalv

7 жыл бұрын

if you think a little longer you will realize that every generation IS at the pinnacle of technological advancement.

@ohger1

7 жыл бұрын

***** Point taken David, but I meant that every generation thinks that there's not much else to innovate; *their* pinnacle is limit.

@decaalv

7 жыл бұрын

ohger1 I agree with you.

Depuis la découverte du transistor c'est impressionnant les progrès de l'électronique et de ça miniaturisation. Et cette invention n'est pas si vieille. Et merci pour cette vidéo historique 👍👍👍👍👍

I remember buying discarded circuit panels from Radio Shack studded with transistors, diodes, capacitors, etc. in the fifth grade (circa 1968) . The IC was just becoming commonplace, and even then the coming revolution in microelectronics wasn't widely recognized. Two decades later, Apple's Mac Plus was on the market, rocking 1MB of Ram and a clock speed of 8MHz. The 30MB hard drive that went with it was as big as the phone book. You youngsters might be able to see one of those in a museum.

@robertromero8692

11 ай бұрын

The hard drive size sounds exaggerated. I bought a 10 Mb hard drive in the mid 80s for my PC that was only about the size of a few paperback books.

@phillipdavidhaskett7513

11 ай бұрын

@@robertromero8692 No exaggeration at all. The Mac Plus had a 9" diagonal CRT, was maybe 16"tall and about 12" square, and the non-Apple hard drive was precisely the same footprint, and about 4 inches thick. I drew my first steel fabrication project on it in 1991 using "MiniCad", and every time I zoomed in or out, or made the slightest change, it took a couple of minutes to redraw the view. Countless hours later, I had a file I took to someone with a pen plotter, who drew it out and made actual ammonia developed blueprints to submit to the architect. He was much impressed by how good they looked and said so, which pleased me greatly even if it did take longer to make the shop drawings than it took to do the actual work.

@roninscar

11 ай бұрын

@@phillipdavidhaskett7513 We had that same hard drive. I was in college in 88 and my dad used my student discount to buy a Mac, and as you say the HD was the same footprint. Still a HUGE step up from our duo-diskdrive equipped Apple IIe

These older documentaries are so easy to follow. They are delivered with mature intelligence.

@handyandy6488

Жыл бұрын

But it did that by saying *nothing* about how the transistor works. We did learn a bit about thermionic valves but not about semiconductors and transistors.

@eyesuckle

Жыл бұрын

@@handyandy6488 Indeed. I kept waiting for a pithy explanation of what a transistor actually *does* and it never came.

@postulator890

Ай бұрын

@@eyesuckle In the simplest terms, just a solid state relay. Small current controlling a large current, but capable of very high switching speeds unlike a mechanical relay.

By far, the most profound invention of the 20th century.

@bingojamas4786

5 жыл бұрын

XmegaPresident That is exactly true. The illusion of AI is nothing more than these humble transistors, packed with unimaginable density, performing operations ONE AT A TIME. Kinda like the old zoetrope; Only so fast you will never imagine it's parts.

@gertraba4484

5 жыл бұрын

no way, MTV, Pizza, MUSCLECARS, lite BEER and PLAYBOY MAG got em all beat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ronalddavis

Жыл бұрын

no that would be trolling motor

Many decades ago I read a Space Opera series of books from the 1940s or so. It followed the basic pattern of typical SO series where each subsequent book had better and greater tech achievements to move the plot along. In one of the later books the Bad Guy had a super-duper space ship that was threatening peace and goodwill throughout the universe. So, the Good Guy purposed to build a better, extra-super-duper space ship to overcome it. I don't recall the exact number, but I distinctly remember him bragging about the ship being powered with MILLIONS of vacuum tubes. Yep, millions. Made sense back then. I also remember reading a scientist say that if a simple digital calculator from about 1975 had somehow been transported back in time to 1945 the scientists of the day would have had to believe that it came from an alien planet. The tech was totally foreign to anything they would have been familiar with. It is good to be aware of Clarke's Third Law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Imagine showing the wonders of modern technology and global communications today to these people. To let them know, back then, just where their creation would take us.

Born in '54. I remember going to the electronics store with my dad to buy replacement vacuum tubes for our TV or HiFi radio. I still have a transistor radio that I was given as a gift around 1964 or '65. It still works.

@watchrami

5 жыл бұрын

Jun Gleno ah when planned obsolescence was not a concept yet

@barbararadle1680

5 жыл бұрын

Me too And I loved that transistor radio Christmas $5 Took it with me everywhere

@markpolyakov1512

2 жыл бұрын

@@watchrami look up the "Phoebus Cartel". They were pretty good at planned obsolescence back in the day.

@SI-ln6tc

2 жыл бұрын

Those things were ment to last.

@FalconFlurry

2 жыл бұрын

Apple would like to know your location

My mom worked for a company called Spectrum Control for 26 years. They made electronics and filters for the space shuttles and our fighter jets. The men that started it started in a Winnebago camper in a parking lot of an old siding and window and door place. And they built that place up to be a very important business. Very proud of my mom and the other women and those men that worked to make that budding industry grow.

How in the world do videos from the 1950s explain things so much better than most modern day videos. The analogy with the size Empire State building and the power and cooling from the Niagara Falls required to run a computer using vacuum tubes is so smart. Really shows how much technology is immensely improved by such a seemingly insignificant electronic part called the transistor. It’s amazing

I like how realistic was their expectations around such a revolutionary invention that was the transistor. Today any new invention or discovery is hyped all through the roof and beyond. Very few lives up to their expectations.

Great film - and especially neat since I've spent time in many of the old Bell Telephone buildings shown, and worked at the old Allentown Works (Western Electric) facility for a while...

@electrospark295

8 жыл бұрын

+w2aew Wow! that's awesome! I really like your videos, btw. :)

@willb3698

6 жыл бұрын

w2aew Same as the other poster said: That's fantastic! And I too really like your videos and your Avatar!

@mrmojavedude4050

5 жыл бұрын

Did you work with those old switch-boards? I think called PLCs? Somebody gave me one, I had it for a few years in my pool table bar for a conversation piece, A friend HAD to have it, so I gave it to him...Dang that thing was heavy :0)

@robertpryor7225

5 жыл бұрын

Finally somebody saying "film" about something that could actually be shot on film. I hate when people call video "film", especially young people, no excuse.

@GrowlyBear917

4 жыл бұрын

I worked at the Allentown facility when it was known as AT&T Technology Systems, from 1984 to 1987. I did not know at the time that the three engineers who invented the transistor were still alive. I would have liked to meet them.

Its amazing how few people realize how important the transistor really is. Without it we wouldn't have integrated circuits and we wouldn't have any of the technology we have today.

@skeetrix5577

Жыл бұрын

there are billions of transistors in your phone

@bjbell52

Жыл бұрын

@@skeetrix5577 Yes, on integrated circuits.

@DineshVutukuru

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@georgeklimes7604

Жыл бұрын

Most people have not even heard the WORD "transistor", let alone know what it is or its significance. The dumbing down of America and other places continues.

@telesniper2

11 ай бұрын

@@georgeklimes7604 "tansistuh? wuh dufuk dat??! Man i aint neva seen no tansisuh buhlshih! dats juss some shih they make up, iss make buhleev man! Juss like round earf n shih"

Robert Anson Heinlein was one of the most forward-looking science fiction writers of the 1940s through many decades. He was a Navy engineer during the war and understood how tech was evolving as well as anyone. His book, Methuselah's Children, was published in 1958 and was set several decades into the future. One of his main characters, Andrew Jackson Libby, was a brilliant, peerless math/tech inventor. Yet, for all his foresight, Heinlein gave Libby the nickname of "Slipstick" because he was so good with a slide rule, which was first developed in the 17th century to aid in math calculations. Even in 1958 the concept of a digital transistor calculator completely escaped one of the best of the technologically oriented science fiction writers.

Dr. Shockley spoke at my college, Texas Tech when I was there in the mid 1970’s.

I spent my career in this industry. One of my first bosses was in it from the beginning. He tells a story of meeting with TJ Watson from IBM and not being believed when he predicted that someday the cost of solid state memory would "fall" to "a penny per bit".

Can't believe this was only 14 years before I was born. I grew up with a natural curiosity of electronics in the 70s and went on to be an electrical engineer. What an exciting era to grow up in

@janezjonsa3165

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Exciting parts were joints and lsd trips. Led zepps... not his transistors. Hello?

@ciscornBIG

Жыл бұрын

@@janezjonsa3165 I'd love to see where you're at in life versus the person you're replying too.

@janezjonsa3165

Жыл бұрын

@@ciscornBIG Is that a competition? I was not aware.

@Bugaboo-wq5sc

Жыл бұрын

@@janezjonsa3165 -- He's probably a 65 yo man in his dead moms basement, cashing her old age checks and smokin' pot.

@janezjonsa3165

Жыл бұрын

Well, I'm 50. And in Vietnam. I was in Thailand a month ago. But in 2 days I'll go to see Hanoi's War museum. If anyone cares to spill their guts, just go ahead. I want to hear it.

The magic of how far we've come in technology! I started as a teenager in the early 60s with AM radio and Black and white TV, transistors were 4 or 5 times the cost of tubes. Now IC chips are cheaper than dirt........

It is very rare for a modern documentary to be so good and concise.

@kathleenking47

11 ай бұрын

Sometimes the more advanced we get, the dumber WE get

@krashd

11 ай бұрын

Depends where the documentary is from.

This is WILD. This is not only astonishing but exhilarating to watch. The general reaction with old documentaries trying to predict the future is usually "how cute, if only they would know", that's not what you get here. These guys are getting everything right. They are getting it all right because they know exactly what they have and how even their for the time crazy sounding claims are all reasonable ideas to how it will evolve in the future.

@muraliavarma

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Was awesome to see the portable TV and radio wrist device being predicted. Sure their imagination of how it might look like was funny but their thinking of the potential applications was spot on.

@Felamine

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, this film was produced by AT&T/Bell Labs who at the time were at the forefront of electronic innovation. They have so many inventions under their belt which are still widely in use today. If any organization had accurate predictions of what future electronics would be like, it would be Bell Labs.

@spankynater4242

11 ай бұрын

This isn’t trying to predict the future. This is discussing technology of the time and how it would be used. If this video had come out in 1920, then it would’ve been trying to predict the future.

With a transistor such a device could fit into a good sized room lol! Who knew. Darn. Forgot to charge my cell phone again!

@kennarajora6532

3 жыл бұрын

And they said 'hundreds of calculating jobs', your phone can do 5.8 Million calculations per second.

@literatesasquatch

3 жыл бұрын

Though if we were using individual transistors, that's probably as far as we would have got.

@norbertfleck812

3 жыл бұрын

@@kennarajora6532 You must have a really antique cellphone. A 2021 Android phone has got a capability of far more than a billion (!) Floating point operations per second.

@FakeSchrodingersCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@kennarajora6532 5.8 million? Your phone must be terrible if that is all it can do.

@MisterNiles

2 жыл бұрын

And now, there are more transistors in your iPhone charging cable than were in the old transistor radios

I'm choked with emotion reflecting upon the great advancements made by our predecessors toward the chip.

The way DeForest's Audion tube functioned is why our British mates call such tubes, "valves" - Very descriptive of the function! 👍😊👍

@Boodlums

11 ай бұрын

Interesting. Of course either term is ambiguous without context, lol. "I found a box of tubes" or "I found a box of valves"-no one will know what kind of tubes or what kind of valves. :)

I want that watch... and that portable TV. Wow, those things are small and so efficient! Maybe I'll get one of those small (just the size of a room) electronic computers too. Wow... the future looks bright!

@MC-yy2bx

3 жыл бұрын

I tried to upload Windows 95 onto one of those "good sized room" computers. It ran out of memory and started quite a fire. Maybe I should've started with DOS ?

@HighlanderNorth1

3 жыл бұрын

📛😳Not me! That's the devil's handiwork right there, my friend!! You'd best forget you ever saw these things! How could a 2"x3" cube shaped watch possibly be able to transmit a single channel of scratchy-sounding AM radio, if not powered by "Satan's magic"!? Or a portable box that's ONLY 24" x 16" square that can pick up a single, fuzzy, black and white UHF TV channel, but without being connected to a huge aerial antenna mounted on top of your 2nd story chimney!! I'm gonna steer right clear of all this hooey! 😠 Enough of this nonsense, I've got butter to churn, and laundry to scrape across a board over top of a large bucket filled with soapy water.....

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be ridiculous, their day was the bright day. The 1960s ruined the vision, especially in automobiles and cancelation of romance retero (wasn't always called retro)

@VidarrKerr

3 жыл бұрын

The Dick Tracy radio watch was awesome. Those old, portable TVs you can find all over the place. edit: I just tried looking up that radio watch, I can't find it. If someone finds it post it please. Would be cool to see how it was made.

@VidarrKerr

3 жыл бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar The 1960s was the beginning of the end, as the Small Hats took over (taking over) culture and technology. The 70s and 80s were the last decades of freedom in the USA. Now, the Small Hats are able to House Arrest the Entire World for a year+.

This video is the embodiment of the phrase "under promise, over deliver".

@mplsmark4132

4 ай бұрын

I find those old articles in popular science, the ones done by futurists very interesting. Some common themes, flying cars, living in space, living under the ocean, really just science fiction. They never anticipated the the impact of solid state electronics, especially the transistor. Humans have probably created more transistors than any other item in all of human history. Considering a single microchip can contain millions no, billions of them.

Fascinating watch. I love learning where people thought we were going, and how it stacked up to what we got. This got everything right, just without details and terms nobody back then could have known.

I've always been a big fan and loved these documentaries from the 50's & 60's. Amazing stuff!

Wow. They were amazed that a 'complex computing machine' could fit within a good sized room, and here I am watching this on something that could fit in a small bag. Wow.

@DrunkenUFOPilot

7 жыл бұрын

And your something in a small bag most likely can run a simulator to run that 50's "complex computing machine" - and that simulation will run faster than the actual hardware did! So, what will be happening fifty years from now, in 2067?

@Roxor128

7 жыл бұрын

These days the kind of computer that would take up a good sized room would have a processing speed measured in petaflops, as opposed to the couple of megaflops of a 1950s-era transistor-based machine. I'm not sure if they'd believe you if you told them that in 60 years' time they could get a computer the same size, but over a thousand-million times faster.

@arshpreetsingh1038

5 жыл бұрын

And I'm watching this on something that can fit into my pocket.

@Bialy_1

5 жыл бұрын

@@arshpreetsingh1038 and his comment was 3 years old... :P

@dzonikg

5 жыл бұрын

@@arshpreetsingh1038 I watched TV on my casio pocket color TV in 1989

I remember with clarity my first transistor radio, bought circa 1958 here in Australia. It was a National Panasonic 8-transistor and came in a leather (yes, leather) case and had a single-earpiece hearing-aid size earphone, stored in a small leather pouch attached to the strap on the case. Amazing technology.......to have something so small which allowed me to receive exactly the same (AM) stations as our vacuum-tube Kreisler console radio in the living room.

@wizzard5442

3 жыл бұрын

National Panasonic and Kreisler....those were the days.

In the late 1950’s I had a four or five transistor pocket radio. What an amazing piece of technology. WOW. Now my iPhone 13 Mini has a small A15 chip in it that has 15 BILLION transistors and other chips in it with even more. And a neural engine that can perform almost 15.8 trillion operations per second. MAGIC .

As a former hardware engineer, I have used the development from transistor to microprocessor to develop many electronic circuits. :)

I love how at the 4:45 minute mark it shows how brown paper soaked in salt water, wrapped around a small coin, made a makeshift battery that produced enough electricity to power the mini transistor! It's so cool! 😎👍🏻 Thanks for sharing this cool bit of history!

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. Just about always went to bed with a transistor radio alongside the pillow.

@if6was929

3 жыл бұрын

Same here and I could always tell if a new song was going to be number one hit, I was wrong only once.

@VidarrKerr

3 жыл бұрын

Did you ever see one of the Dick Tracy radios in real life?

@abeerfaisal1986

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see that you are still alive.

@ok4405

2 жыл бұрын

@@abeerfaisal1986 😂

@sbalogh53

2 жыл бұрын

I was given an 8 transistor radio with a leather case when I was around 12 years old. It was not working so I opened it up and saw that the corner of the circuit board was cracked. I had no way of soldering at that age so I just wrapped a bit of wire around two components on either side of the crack and the radio actually worked again. I used to listen to it for an hour each night but I had to be careful because it used an expensive 9v battery about the size of 2 C cells end to end. AM only of course. FM was unheard of back then. I wonder what happened to it. Like many things I owned as a kid the radio mysteriously vanished one day.

Probably the two most important inventions of the 20th century was the vacuum tube (Thermonic valve) in 1906 which led to modern electronics like radio, television, radar and the earliest electronic computers. Then in 1947 the transistors which led to the amazing technology we have today. The diode tube invented in 1903.

Absolutely fascinating!

I was born the year this film was made. I bought my first radio in 1968 which had four transistors.

@euvo_sound

3 жыл бұрын

we also had one too but it was dissassembled.Only parts i found are the heatsink and a mosfet and the 4 transistors WHICH STILL WORKS TO THIS DAY

@FightCollective

3 жыл бұрын

Strange,,, I was borne in 1968.

@neve_dimka

3 жыл бұрын

@@euvo_sound "mosfet and the 4 transistors" so you find 5 transistors...

@euvo_sound

3 жыл бұрын

@@neve_dimka Yes, im still figuring out how to operate the amplifier and what electronics do i need for it.

@owenkegg5608

Жыл бұрын

Five WHOLE transistors? Wowee! :]

In the late 1950's I was an apprentice in a London radio/TV manufacturing facility. All the products were vacuum tube (valve) technology and we started making the first transistor radios in 1958. The transistors were made by the Mullard valve company and each one was handmade with around an 80% fail rate. This somewhat problematic beginning very quickly changed and the phenomenal developments in semiconductors technologies continues at an astounding pace.

It's surprising how prescient this mini documentary is! Some of the predications are bang on... and that's pretty impressive for 1953!

one of my favorite things to do is watch old documentaries about computing and stuff and then just use my computer in awe for the next 20 minutes. like hey guy from 70 years ago LOOK I CAN DO THIS

Imagine studying physics your whole life, inventing the transistor, and then some people come along and say: 'nuh uh, you stole it from aliens'.

@mirroredvoid8394

2 жыл бұрын

Aliens stole their brains.

@jingalls9142

2 жыл бұрын

People have 0 concept of how innovative humans are. I just weep when people say the pyramids were of extraterrestrial origin...what an insult to the ones who built them.

@marcusrosales3344

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry John Bardeen got a second nobel prize in physics for his BCS theory of superconductivity to prove himself. Strange bits use transistors and current qbits (in quantum computers) use superconducting rings. Maybe Bardeen was an alien after all 👽

@janezjonsa3165

2 жыл бұрын

Its the same people that runs chemtrails

@thorn9382

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there an scp like that?

We always feel we’re at the peak of technology When we’re only on a ledge

@scsi_joe

5 жыл бұрын

True enough. I guess people feel like that because they're comparing it to what's been up to this point.

@ruslbicycle6006

3 жыл бұрын

Physical Technology was advancing faster back then than it is now. Back then, they were anticipating things quite well. And the predictions they made were quite accurate in that decade. Now computer technology isn't so rapid. Hard Drives have stopped getting cheaper. Biological innovation is a lot more likely to bring dramatic change to our live. We see that with new classes of drugs designed rapidly at the molecular level, and vaccines. And social change, as the internet communication standard rearranges social connections. But new phones are only slightly more advanced than they were 10 years ago, not like the radical changes you had mid century.

@Mrclish5000

3 жыл бұрын

Well stated

@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn

3 жыл бұрын

thx moores law ;;;;;;DDDDD

@OriginalMergatroid

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruslbicycle6006 Hard drives are not used so much now, but their price per gigabyte keeps going down because of increases in capacity. SSDs are taking over just as transistors did for vacuum tubes. Tech is advancing every bit as fast now as it did back then. Look at communications. Not using wires so much now. How about display technology? OLED and quantum dots anyone? How about wifi, and streaming? Medical science is advancing like crazy, I mean we have mapped the human genome and can edit genes as simple as 123. And how about space programs? We did amazing things in the 20th, and it's still happening in the 21st. I'm not even touching the tip of the iceberg here. We haven't even mentioned AI, or drones, or robots. Yeah, robots in the 21st century don't need to suck back a cigarette to impress, they just run over ice and snow, and up and down stairs, not to mention flying at hundreds of miles per hour. There are advances in areas now we didn't even know existed back in the mid 20th.

That is amazing that such a video still exists. I've been watching this one with great pleasure.🤗

We are all watching this on our "Dick Tracy Video Watches". What a day to live!

4:05 The man on the left taking lab notes is John Bardeen, a theoretical physicist who later won a second Nobel prize for the theory of superconductivity. It's not that common to see theoreticians doing experiments these days :)

Can’t beat these old informational videos

@robertpryor7225

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't even try

What an absolutely spectacular century this was.

To say the transistor changed the world has got to be the most understated statement ever!

Man these old videos are priceless! I could watch them all day!

The Bell System and Bell Labs are greatly missed. Never again will the US have such an engine of progress.

@mhammadalloush5104

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, all we see nowadays is how to milk the consumers dwindling income even more.

@bennri

5 жыл бұрын

Google's doing the basic research now

@kennewton9369

5 жыл бұрын

Right wing horse bleep. AT&T's telephone monopoly at that time afforded them the luxury of conducting much basic research and discovery. Over focus on immediate wealth creation for shareholders is the problem with business today.

@gertraba4484

5 жыл бұрын

no need for corporate think tanks with the advent of AI and groups that want to control our tech inputs

@Oneness100

5 жыл бұрын

Now all of the R&D of technology is done by literally thousands of companies around the world in many different disciplines.

This format of video might be my fav thing on youtube

The transistor is easily one of the most important inventions in history. The modern world would not exist without it.