History of the transistor about 15 volts". Brattain and H. R. Moore made a demonstration to several of their colleagues and managers at Bell Labs on the afternoon of 23 December 1947, often given as the birth date of the transistor. The "PNP point-contact germanium transistor" operated as a speech amplifier with a power gain of 18 in that trial. In 1956 John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley were honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". Twelve people are mentioned as directly involved in the invention of the transistor
Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions except where noted. Live in Concert, Hammersmith Palais, 22 December 1980 Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions is a boxed set by XTC released in 1998, just two months prior to "Apple Venus Volume 1". Tracks on the first two discs are culled from various BBC radio sessions the group performed on over the years, notably for John Peel and David Jensen. Discs three and four are live recordings, the latter of which was previously released as "BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert". "Opening Speech" from the first disc is