A SUMMARY
SHULMAN'S ROSWELL EXPECTATIONS AND THE BELL BOYS

I cite below further extremely important information of which it appears Shulman has no knowledge. Shulman's claims that these inventions pertaining to the use of Boron and Silicon in the manufacture of the 'transistor' could only have evolved from extraterrestrials are, to me, none other than a shoddy attempt to evade the inconvenience of using true and proper research techniques into the matter. Whilst Shulman is to be commended for his endeavours to rectify this apparent enigma of the history of the transistor, he does little for himself by turning the whole enigma over to the realm of pure speculation.

There is nothing whatsoever that is new or revolutionarily spectacular about the use of Boron and Silicon pertaining to crystals. A patent was granted to G. W. Pickard of the USA in the early 1920's for that very process, well over twenty years before Shockley and his crew stole the credit of their predecessors and, well, well before the recorded time of the Roswell incident.

Crystals were highly prized in the early days of wireless because of their well known powerful and highly efficient detecting properties - also for their superior fidelity of reproduction of the "original signal" compared to that of the vacuum tube rectifier. It is also to be remembered here that, at this particular point in time, the transistor had not yet been invented, but the ground had been laid for further progress, i.e., that of two crystals being physically connected together (see drawing) with three electrical terminals, providing a mid-point "junction" (signal I.P.) and an I.P. and O.P. connections.

The reality I wish to highlight here is the fact that the use of Boron and Silicon for solid state devices were discovered and processed by innovation (or invention if you like) with crystals by "human beings" here on planet earth, well over seventy years ago, i.e., and, in particular, over twenty years before the Bell crew lay claim to it all. Nothing there to be proud of - sheer plagiarism of the highest order. And as for the notion of good old E.T. handing it to us at Roswell, Area 51, or wherever - I think not! Our pioneers of the twenties and early thirties did not need the facilities of either Bell Laboratories or Berkley Laboratories, or "thousands and thousands and thousands of hours" to find out how to dope their silicon crystals! That invention of the crystal detector, as outlined in the second paragraph above, was already in the public domain, but owned by G.W. Pickard of the USA, not the Shockley crew.