Home›Articles›Who invented the transistor: Bell Labs, Lilienfeld and MataréArticleWho invented the transistor: Bell Labs, Lilienfeld and MataréArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnTransistor, Inventions Well-attested SourcesTransistor (Wikipedia)History: Bipolar transistorsQuote, History: Bipolar transistorsHaving unearthed Lilienfeld's patents that went into obscurity years earlier, lawyers at Bell Labs advised against Shockley's proposal because the idea of a field-effect transistor that used an electric field as a grid was not new.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.