Aethmogen - Transistor Enigma - The truth must prevail

So it all now begs the question - who are the rightful and original inventor/s on planet Earth of the transistor? And, for that matter, if it can be considered as important, the rightful recipient/s of the Nobel Prize.

It is perhaps to be observed that Mr. Lossev, if still with us, could be considered as entering his very, very late years and perhaps no longer available to us to enlighten us in any way towards this paradox. O. Lossev, however, having carried out experimental tests with crystals before publishing his findings, did not, in any way, make any claim as him having invented anything. Also, there is no evidence in his theoretical intuitive announcement that pertains to him having duplicated any crystal circuitry which I had perceived and accomplished in the later year of 1933.

Colliers Encyclopedia, Volume No. 22, Page 408: Please note - the numbers prefixing the lines of this quotation from Colliers are not Colliers but are those of the author, who wishes to cross reference specific text in order to address certain aspects of the content of this text. This address will immediately follow Colliers quotation.

001	"HISTORY
002	The evolution of transistor technologies has been so rapid as to be
003	equally revolutionary with the invention itself. When the transistor
004	was announced in 1948 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, it was
005	received as a marvel of the science of our times and as an equal
006	wonder in simplicity. It was foretold at the time that the transistor
007	heralded a revolution in electronics. Belief in this vision is attested
008	on a truly worldwide scale by the tremendous concentration of science
009	and engineering on the development of transistor technology.
010	This development was build on the work of Bell Telephone
011	Laboratories1 scientists, such as John Bardeen and Walter H.
012	Brattain, who invented the transistor, and William Shockley, who both
013	directed the Laboratories' research program in semiconductors and
014	outlined many of the physical theories that led to a basic understand-
015	ing of semiconductor materials and their behaviour. Their assault on
016	the semiconductor problem was launched from a base of contributions
017	made by the Laboratories' scientists and engineers, especially
018	Russell S. Ohl, Jack H. Scaff and Henry C. Theuerer, whose pioneer-
019	ing work on silicon made a new class of semiconductors available to
020	physicists. Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain were jointly awarded the
021	1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on the
022	transistor."

002, 003 and 004: The transistor did not evolve as stated above. Its announcement in 1948 by Bell Laboratories came some fifteen years after I invented the device in 1933. This device was known to me as a "Crystal Amplifier" which, indeed, it was - and, in fact, still is. I reiterate that the word/term "transistor" had not, prior to this announcement in 1948, entered the lexicon. The word transistor was coined by Bell Laboratories at that time when they stumbled upon a method by which they could use crystals as an electronic amplifier, the invention of which I had perceived and achieved in 1933. The Bell boys invented nothing, as the original invention was already in the public domain, some fifteen years prior - only they did not know it.

008 and 009: "Tremendous concentration of science and engineering on the development of transistor technology." Whose words are these - Colliers or Bells? Either way, whoever made this statement, does a grave insult to Bell Laboratories. Were the troup of six, between them all, so bereft of intellect as to deserve this volte- face commendation? This directly reflects upon the statement in Shulman's article regarding the "thousands and thousands and thousands of hours" bit!

018 and 019: "...Russell S. Ohl, Jack H. Scaff and Henry C. Theuerer, whose pioneering work on silicon...". Historical records (Ralph Strangers book 'Outline of Wireless' 1932) have it that the "pioneering work on silicon" rightly belongs to a gentleman by the name of G. W. Pickard of USA. He owns the original Patent for that very 'pioneering work' - all this some twenty-five years before the Bell boys were even heard of.

Colliers were indeed brave in giving this history in such a way. They have presupposed that truth prevails throughout their short commentary here. We all rely on historical records, but there are those among us who maintain that most of recorded history is bunkum. So everyone is at the mercy of historical records. All anyone can hope to do is try and reverse this trend as we move through life, and hope that truth prevails someday.