The First Ten Years of the Transistor
W. O. Baker · Bell System Technical Journal · 1958
The technology in which it was to be used was already about 85 years old when Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley discovered the transistor ten years ago, This circumstance has led to an unusual course of development and application, The transistor has affected the technical and commercial growth of electronics and communications more quickly than might have been expected from the somewhat offhand newspaper comments of July 1, 1948. (The news story about the transistor was carried on page 46 in one famous case).