The Transistor: Selected Reference Material on Characteristics and Applications by BELLTelephone Laboratories - 1951

New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Small quarto. 8.5 x 11 in. 792 pp. Very good in original grey vinyl wrappers that have isolated stains on the front and back covers, and age-toned pages that otherwise remain clean and free of foxing or other markings. This text contains a series of essays on the theory, properties, design principles, application, and characteristics of transistors under development in the 1950s. Included among the various authors is William Shockley, who won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics alongside Bell-Labs scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.