The lab that "put the silicon in Silicon Valley" does not exist anymore — it was torn down last year to make room for a shopping center — but its lasting impact cannot be overestimated. In 1956, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley had submitted the patent application for a "three-electrode circuit element ...

Originally Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the company was founded by William Shockley in 1955 in Mountain View, California, eventually considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Shockley was a ...

Although many scientists contributed along the way, it was three men who really brought the transistor to life, and each played a different role: the thinker, the tinkerer, and the visionary. John ...