cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/15044893
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/first_silicon_transistors.html
image description
Image of a magazine advertisement with the title text "silicon transistors now in production!"
Text at the bottom left identifies it as the June 1954 issue of ELECTRONICS.
The advertisement consists of a row of eight three-pin solid state components "growing" in a field. There is a building in the distance behind them. The components are alternately labeled with Texas Instruments' Map-of-Texas logo and the number "900". From left to right, each component is closer to the viewer, and the fifth-to-closest one is labeled "actual size".
This text is overlaid on the image:
silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market ... brought to you first by Texas Instruments, a leading transistor manufacturer. A new and unrivaled degree of design freedom is created by the TI n-p-n grown junction silicon transistor, now available in production units with glass-to-metal hermetic sealing, silicon transistors radically improve temperature stability and power handling while retaining the best amplification and frequency characteristics of previous semiconductor devices.
write today for detailed information on the silicon transistor!
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