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Old 07-24-2013 | 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by rc_dude
I don't mind going off topic for this at all, the thread has really stopped anyway.

...FET's were invented in the 20's i believe, but weren't realistic to use until for large amounts of power till fairly recently.
And here I thought John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs invented the bipolar transistor in 1947, during their attempts to invent the Field Effect Transistor.

So now, thanks to your "off topic" comment, I just did some web surfing and found out that they patented the bipolar transistor to AVOID the previous patents for the FET-- filed in 1925!

My head is going to explode if you guys keep forcing me to jam new information in there.
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