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Way back 1948 came a semiconductor device that revolutionized the Electronics world
Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for the new device
John R. Pierce, coined name "Transistor" for the device
A combination of the words "transfer" and "resistor" with the suffix "-istor" used by Bell engineers.