WI: The Transistor is invented in 1925?

On October 25th 1925, Julius Edgar Lillienfield, an Austro-Hungarian Scientist, filed a patent for the first field-effect transistor, however he never published any articles about his device and his work was ignored.

But what if Lillienfield had published articles about his device? What could be expected of this new technological advancement? What would WWII be like? and what of Television and Radio? What else happens?
 
If Lillienfield had published articles about his field-effect transistor in USA and Canada.
other who read it, would try build and test it.

but will lead this to technical revolution ?
see the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away,
I guess that the field-effect transistor would become of interest during 1930s on R&D on Radar, Radio and early Computers.
Because transistor lead to better and compact systems

before someone comes with argument: NAZI+transistor = Total Victory
See in 1934, German inventor Oskar Heil patented a similar device in Britain. his work was totally ignored in The Third Reich
the Nazi show almost no interest in this kind of technology...
 

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Its unlikely it could be used for much before the 1950s because tubes were getting better results than the early transistors. They allowed things to be built in smaller sizes as they got less fragile, but at the earliest the mid-1940s is probably as soon as you are going to get it workable in military radios.
 
Its unlikely it could be used for much before the 1950s because tubes were getting better results than the early transistors. They allowed things to be built in smaller sizes as they got less fragile, but at the earliest the mid-1940s is probably as soon as you are going to get it workable in military radios.

Military Radios, as in "walkie talkies"? Or more like a mobile phone, or an actual radio?
 

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Military Radios, as in "walkie talkies"? Or more like a mobile phone, or an actual radio?
The first US transistor radios in the 1950s (i.e. Korean War) where not walkie talkies, rather back pack radios.
 
Selenium rectifiers were around in the 1930s,
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but didn't replace rectifier tubes till after WWII, even though they were more efficient, lighter and longer lasting, but not any smaller, volume wise


They stayed in common uses till the mid '60s, when silicon power diodes came of age in current handling ability and replaced them
 
Selenium rectifiers were around in the 1930s, but didn't replace rectifier tubes till after WWII, even though they were more efficient, lighter and longer lasting, but not any smaller, volume wise


They stayed in common uses till the mid '60s, when silicon power diodes came of age in current handling ability and replaced them

but wouldn't the silicon power diodes have developed earlier ATL? Considering the amount of time it took OTL, wouldn't it be the same amount of time more or less?
 
The first US transistor radios in the 1950s (i.e. Korean War) where not walkie talkies, rather back pack radios.
Not sure if we're possibly confusing terms here, IIRC during WWII and Korean War the 'walkie talkie' was the larger backpack model like the SCR-300 whilst the 'handie talkie' was the smaller hand-held model such as the SCR-536. Somewhere along the way the former term became popularly known/used for the latter model.
 
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