PROLOGUE TO THE TRANSISTOR ENIGMA

Transistor Electronics by Howard H. Gerrish, Professor if Industrial Studies, San Hose State College, California, USA 1969; published by The Goodheart Wilcox Co. Inc., USA; Chapter 13, page 193. "The transistor was discovered or born in the Bell Laboratories in 1948". Note the term discovered or born. (No further references or credits).

Of all the encyclopedias and authoritative scientific and technological texts that I have searched in relation to the history of the transistor, the most prominent revelation is that of the inconsistencies of the different historical records.

There is not a shred of concrete evidence in recorded history to be found anywhere, as to who invented the transistor if, indeed, any one person did invent it. Every record casts doubt by omission of salient data and credits. From the foregoing evidence it is plain to see and conclude that none of the publishers of the history were convinced of the history's authenticity.

What transpired in the Bell Laboratories is at best an orchestrated litany of confusion and misinformation from which people could be forgiven taking the opinion that the whole scenario appears to smack of collusion.

In Jack Schulman's publication in Nexus Magazine of Australia, ho boldly attempts to get to the truth, but fails to do so simply because the above mentioned history is so ambiguous and contradictory. So I say, let's follow his lead and get to the real truth here.