Quick facts
Milestone: Transistor patented
Date: Oct. 3, 1950
Where: Bell Labs; Murray Hill, New Jersey
Who: John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor.
