How It Started … How It’s Going
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What semiconductor device, unveiled by Bell Labs in December 1947, got its now-permanent name the following year from a company-wide poll of engineers and executives — beating out other candidates that included a device dubbed the "iotatron" — and went on to become the foundational building block of virtually every modern electronic device?
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