THE TRUTH MUST PREVAIL

No one person of the AT&T group of scientists, assigned to inventing the transistor was responsible or, indeed, able to invent the transistor alone, according to Shulman's knowledge of the people involved and their obvious inability to invent the transistor. I have it that it was a culmination of a combined effort of at least six people involved, Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain, Russell S. Ohl, Scafe and Theuerer. Shulman sided with Morton in calling Shockley, Bardeen and Brittain "idiots" and "not capable of inventing the transistor".

It appears the only thread of truth that is in the recorded history of the transistor is that of it's date of discovery. Shockley, Bardeen and Brittain were the recipients of the Nobel Prize for their efforts? I also ask how was this organised? The whole history is a farcical circus, is ambiguous and seemingly contradictory. No one seems to know the real truth of the matter and this is where I can understand Shulman's endeavours to exact some sense out of the whole enigma.

Reference Shulman's statement referring to Shockley "suddenly discovering that the rectifier has 'unusual propensities' ". These 'propensities' have been known since the days of crystal sets, which is well over 100 years ago, they are an intrinsic property of crystals - Shockley discovered nothing! This statement is rank nonsense for the very reason that the 'unusual propensities' referred to are intrinsic of the nature of a crystal and it is because of this fact that crystals are rectifiers! (Refer also to the 'Peltier effect' so named after Jean Peltier (1785 - 1845). Since when did the propensities of a single crystal rectifier become an invention and/or represent a transistor?!!

I have a sound reason for bringing Shulman's attention to this matter as the paper he has presented contains contradiction itself and scrambles to and fro on matters that are totally irrelevant in the decision making of who, if any one person did indeed, invent the transistor or reverse engineer any technology at all. The ambiguous account (aforementioned) that a man named Case was talking about transistors in 1931, how can this be when the name/word "transistor" itself had not then yet been born/invented. However, having said that, may I quote a Russian scientist by the name of O. Lossev, of Nijni, Nougorod, who, it is very interesting to note, made the monumental announcement that "a crystal rectifier/detector can also be used for generating and amplifying purposes, (are we not coming fast to an all crystal multi-stage receiver?)". This statement is quoted in 'Wireless World' No. 271, U. K., 22nd October 1924.

It was late December 1929 I started experimental work with natural crystals in various tuning and selectivity circuit combinations in the many crystal sets I developed that followed.

In my youth I was profoundly interested in the wonders of natural crystals and permanent magnets. My earliest days of interest at first surrounded crystals. I was so fascinated with them that my interest very quickly reached into the realm of the aether and, in turn, into broadcasting, general communications and "ferromagnetics".

It was at the age of thirteen years, in the year 1933, that from intuition and continuing experiments with various kinds of natural crystals, I conceived a method to amplify the remarkable properties of crystals, by placing a similar pair of crystals together physically. To achieve this extrasensory perception, I was to connect two similar crystals together physically and utilising the junction as the base of the module (as would apply to the grid of a vacuum tube amplifier), I was to apply a low battery bias voltage to each crystal in their required polarity direction. I had, incidentally, by this time built a number of class A triode vacuum tube amplifiers. Connections were achieved with cats whiskers supported by the then available vertical cantilever style supports. This resulted in a spectacular solid state amplifying module of immense amplification properties. The output was fed into an old inefficient balanced armature speaker. Considering the weight of the iron armature, the driving rod and the diaphragm, I observed that a considerable amount of inertia had to be overcome by the low magnetic field available. I quickly realised that this situation could be substantially improved by obtaining a more modern speaker, i.e., a permanent magnet type speaker, which hadn't been very long on the wireless market in 1933, to replace the clumsy old one. This resulted in higher quality reproduction and amplification. At such a young age I had no idea of the enormity of what I had achieved. Here before me was a solid state power amplifier module capable of massive power gain and what is now known as a "transistor". As previously mentioned, it did not take me the immense number of man-hours that Shulman claims it would take, nor did I require the assistance of a team of adult assistants. One must say that the curiosity of a thirteen year old boy led him into the realm of invention, (not a "chance discovery"!) Little did I know it then, but this little module was to become the forerunner of what I set out to achieve, at a later date, in reducing the gross mass of the then current receiving apparatus.¹

I have searched back one hundred years plus in various encyclopedias and scientific texts for anybody having recorded any similar development or invention pertaining to the birth of the transistor and can only find just one other person and that is t he Russian scientist O. Lossev, as aforementioned.

Since Shulman claims that nobody from AT&T who shared the Nobel Prize "invented" the transistor, he professes his uncertainty on the issue by claiming, on the other hand, that the transistor could only then have been invented by extraterrestrials! What in heavens name is he talking about here? I put it to him - what use would ET's have for electronic solid state technology in their spacecraft? There would be no such gadgetry as control or communications equipment in their technology. Their control and communication of what we call UFOs would be all carried out by MIND CONTROL. They would be millions of years ahead of man on planet Earth! No one in the year 2000 could be forgiven for this kind of thinking - in the 1950's perhaps, but without doubt not today. Kids of today at school play with sophisticated electronic gadgetry in their science labs that in the 1950's were undreamt of. What I am getting at here is that ET's would have been travelling the vast corridors of intergalactic travel for millions of years before the advent of the transistor here on earth. Why then, supposing Roswell is real, and there is little doubt in my mind that it is not real, would these advanced beings be using transistor technology, for pity's sake. No - the Roswell visitors would have carried no technology on board their craft that ever remotely resembled out transistor technology - far too obsolete for them.