Transistor and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld patented a field-effect transistor in 1926 but it was not possible to actually construct a working device at that time. The first practically implemented device was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley. The transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things. The transistor is on the list of IEEE milestones in electronics, and Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement.
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