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point-contact transistor

first type of solid-state electronic transistor ever constructed
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point-contact transistor

Summary

point-contact transistor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (367 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • point-contact transistor's subclass of is recorded as bipolar junction transistor[2].
  • point-contact transistor's Commons category is recorded as Germanium point-contact transistors[3].
  • point-contact transistor's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1947-00-00T00:00:00Z[4].
  • point-contact transistor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09hlgq[5].
  • point-contact transistor's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/point-contact-transistor[6].
  • point-contact transistor's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777771395[7].

Why It Matters

point-contact transistor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (367 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . computerhistory.org. computerhistory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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