Last updated on March 14, 2016 by scary for kids. Four stories about scary phone calls. Thereâs something very unnerving about strange phonecalls in the middle of the night and unidentified voices on the other end. I grew up on a farm in a remote area and I have always been uneasy about being in the house by myself at night.
1 What present-day device did the invention of the transistor most directly influence? automobile light bulb atomic bomb laptop computer. 2  What present-day device did the invention of the transistor most directly influence? automobile light bulb atomic bomb laptop computer.
They stood on the shoulders of the great inventors of the 19th century to produce the greatest invention of the our time: the transistor. The transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Telephone Laboratories by a team led by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley.he Transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research. Web site that accompanies a Public Broadcasting System television show about the history of the transistor.