Walter Brattain (17 results)
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Published by Taylor and Francis, London 1949
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of the revolutionary transistor issue of The Bell System Technical Journal featuring the first account of the invention of the transistor, which ushered in the information age. Offered is the entire volume for 1949 (753 pages, complete with index), which also contains t…he July semiconductor issue dedicated to the semiconductor. Also included is Claude Shannon's Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (pp. 656-715). New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. Contemporary green buckram. X-Libris but with minimal markings. Pages clean and bright. Near fine copy. Brattain, Walter H. and John Bardeen. "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action," Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors. Et al. Walter H. Brattain, John Bardeen, 1949. "Surface Properties of Germanium," Bell System Technical Journal 32(1), pp. 239-277. Hamming, R. W. "Error detecting and error correcting codes," The Bell System Technical Journal. 29 (1950), pp. 147-160. Shannon C. E. "Prediction and entropy of printed English," The Bell System Technical Journal. 30 (1951), pp. 50-64. Clos, Charles. "A study of non-blocking switching networks." In The Bell System Technical Journal, volume 32 (1953), 406-424.
Language: English
Published by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. / Western Electric Co., Inc., New York 1951
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 792 Pp. Grey Card Covers Printed In Black. First Printing. "The Material Included Herein Covers The Same Ground And Supplements The Talks Given At A Symposium On Transistors, Which Was Held At The Bell Telephone Laboratories During The Week Beginning September 17, 1951. Includes R…eprints Of Important Shockley Papers Including The "The Theory Of P-N Junctions In Semiconductors And P-N Junction Transistors" From The 1949 Bell System Telephone Journal, And 33 Other Articles By Shockley And Others, Most Of Which Are First Published Here, Representing A Comprehensive Overview Of The Latest Developments In This Important Milestone In Electronics. Includes A Joint Article By Shockley And Sparks On P - N Transistor Junctions; The Junction Transistor, First Announced By Bell Labs In 1951, Was More Efficient And Consumed Far Less Power Than The Original 1947 Type, And Led To The Electronics Revolution In Small Devices; Sparks Was Later Directore Of Sandia Labs 1972-1981, And Was Involved In Plasma Research. (Note: No Articles Credited To Bardeen Or Brattain). Some Wear And Light Soiling To Covers, But All Lettering Clear On Front Cover And All Lettering Worn But Present On Spine. Internally A Clean Copy. Laid In Loosely Are Signed First Day Covers Commemorating Their Achievements, One Each Signed By Shockley, Brattain And Bardeen. Signed by Author(s).
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 18. A perfect gift f…or your loved ones. Reprinted from 1929 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 18.
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Add to basketOhne Ort, ohne Jahr, 10 x 15 cm. 1 Seite. Brattain erhielt 1956 zusammen mit William B. Shockley und John Bardeen den Nobelpreis für Physik "für ihre Untersuchungen über Halbleiter und ihre Entdeckung des Transistoreffekts". - Mit einem Foto des Ehepaars Brattain beim Tanz.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 9 by 6 inches, 163 pages. Covers have slight wear, some fading. Pages clean. Very very slight dampstain on top 1/2 inch of last ten pages. Articles include surface properties of Germanium by Brattain and Bardeen. And more.
The Transistor and the Foundation of Modern Cryptography [Bell System Technical Journal] [Vol. 28]
Bardeen, John; Brattain, Walter; Shockley, William; Shannon, Claude; et al.
Published by American Telephone And Telegraph, New York 1949
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes: ? Shannon, "The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits" [not in OOC]. ? Shannon, "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" [not in OOC]. ? Bardeen & Brattain, "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action" [OOC 450]. ? Shockley, "The T…heory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors" [not in OOC]. Vol 28 is best known for No. 3, entirely devoted to the semiconductor/transistor. It includes articles by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley (jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the subject). Other issues includes Claude E. Shannon's 'The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits', and Bardeen and Brattain's 'Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action'. However, it is worth noting that Shannon's "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems", exploring cryptography as a function of information theory is monumental for modern crypto theory. It is "one of the foundation treatments (arguably THE foundational treatment) of modern cryptography. It is also a proof that all theoretically unbreakable ciphers must have the same requirements as the one-time pad [a secret random key used only once]" [Wikipedia] N.B. Shannon published an earlier iteration of this research in the classified report, "A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography (Memorandum MM 45-110-02, Bell Laboratory, 1945). [Shannon, Collected Papers, no. 25.40610]. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 753pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
More imagesPublished by American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York 1949
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Add to basketHardcover. First edition. THE INVENTION OF THE TRANSISTOR. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of the first comprehensive report on the transistor, one of the most important inventions of the 20th Century. "In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying to use ultrahigh frequency waves for telephone commun…ications, and needed a more reliable detection method than the vacuum tube, which proved incapable of picking up rapid vibrations . John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley spearheaded the Bell Labs effort to develop a new means of amplification," developing, by 1948, a novel device that would effectively amplify and control electric signals. "At roughly half an inch high, the first transistor was huge by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit onto a single silicon chip. But it was the very first solid state device capable of doing the amplification work of a vacuum tube, earning Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. More significantly, it spawned an entire industry and ushered in the Information Age, revolutionizing global society" (The American Physical Society). The invention of the transistor was first announced in three short letters by Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley, and Pearson, in The Physical Review (July 1948). The following year Bardeen and Brattain published the more comprehensive report 'Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action'. This paper was simultaneously published, the same month, in The Physical Review and The Bell System Technical Journal. Offered here is the Bell printing [no priority established]. In 1956 Bardeen and Brattain shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". In 1972 Bardeen again received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory), and thus became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field. Provenance: Regnar Holfrid Svensson (1910-90), Swedish engineer and inventor (signature to front wrapper). "The first patent for the field-effect transistor principle was filed in Canada by Austrian-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld on October 22, 1925, but Lilienfeld published no research articles about his devices, and his work was ignored by industry. In 1934 German physicist Dr. Oskar Heil patented another field-effect transistor. There is no direct evidence that these devices were built, but later work in the 1990s show that one of Lilienfeld's designs worked as described and gave substantial gain. Legal papers from the Bell Labs patent show that William Shockley and a co-worker at Bell Labs, Gerald Pearson, had built operational versions from Lilienfeld's patents, yet they never referenced this work in any of their later research papers or historical articles. "The Bell Labs work on the transistor emerged from war-time efforts to produce extremely pure germanium 'crystal' mixer diodes, used in radar units as a frequency mixer element in microwave radar receivers. UK researchers had produced models using a tungsten filament on a germanium disk, but these were difficult to manufacture and not particularly robust. Bell's version was a single-crystal design that was both smaller and completely solid. A parallel project on germanium diodes at Purdue University succeeded in producing the good-quality germanium semiconducting crystals that were used at Bell Labs. Early tube-based circuits did not switch fast enough for this role, leading the Bell team to use solid-state diodes instead. After the war, Shockley decided to attempt the building of a triode-like semiconductor device. He secured funding and lab space, and went to work on the problem with Bardeen and Brattain. John Bardeen eventually developed a new branch of quantum mechanics known as surface physics to account for the 'odd' behavior they saw, and Bardeen and Walter Bratta.
Published by American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York 1949
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 "Semico…nductor Issue" dedicated entirely to the discuss of the transistor and semiconductor devices. The entire 1949 volume offered. "In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying to use ultrahigh frequency waves for telephone communications, and needed a more reliable detection method than the vacuum tube, which proved incapable of picking up rapid vibrations. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley spearheaded the Bell Labs effort to develop a new means of amplification," developing, by 1948, a novel device that would effectively amplify and control electric signals. "At roughly half an inch high, the first transistor was huge by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit onto a single silicon chip. But it was the very first solid state device capable of doing the amplification work of a vacuum tube, earning Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. More significantly, it spawned an entire industry and ushered in the Information Age, revolutionizing global society" (The American Physical Society). The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". Also included is Claude Shannon's Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (pp. 656-715). BARDEEN, J., and BRATTAIN, W. H. Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. In The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1949 (pp. 239-277). WITH: BARDEEN, J., and BRATTAIN, W.H., and SHOCKLEY, W., et al. The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3. July, 1949. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. Octavo, contemporary blue buckram. The whole volume with all the issues for 1949 (753 pages, complete with contents and index). Fine copy.
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Brattain, Walter, US-amerikanischer Physiker und Nobelpreisträger (1902-1987).
Published by Tri Cities, WA, 23. II. 1978. 1978
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Add to basketQuer-kl.-8vo. 1 p. Postgelaufen. Brattain beschäftigte sich vorwiegend mit den Oberflächeneigenschaften von Festkörpern. Nach ersten Untersuchungen an Wolfram galt sein Interesse vor allem Oberflächeneffekten an Halbleitern wie Silicium und Germanium, zu deren besserem Verständnis er wesentliche Beiträge lieferte. Zusammen mit J…ohn Bardeen entwickelte er den Punktkontakttransistor.Brattain erhielt 1956 zusammen mit William B. Shockley und John Bardeen den Nobelpreis für Physik für ihre Untersuchungen über Halbleiter und ihre Entdeckung des Transistoreffekts".
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Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. NY 1953. first edition. In The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume XXXII, Number 1 January 1953 at pp. 1-41. Whole issue. Bardeen shared Nobel Prize with Shockley and Brattain for the invention of the Transistor in 1956 and won it again in 1972. Good, date stamp on front cover - no other ownership marks; some…rubbing and wear on cover and slight slant to spine.
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Brattain, Walter, US-amerikanischer Physiker und Nobelpreisträger (1902-1987).
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Add to basket125 : 177 mm. Brustbild nach 1/2-rechts. - Brattain beschäftigte sich vorwiegend mit den Oberflächeneigenschaften von Festkörpern. Nach ersten Untersuchungen an Wolfram galt sein Interesse vor allem Oberflächeneffekten an Halbleitern wie Silicium und Germanium, zu deren besserem Verständnis er wesentliche Beiträge lieferte. Zusa…mmen mit John Bardeen entwickelte er den Punktkontakttransistor. Brattain erhielt 1956 zusammen mit William B. Shockley und John Bardeen den Nobelpreis für Physik für ihre Untersuchungen über Halbleiter und ihre Entdeckung des Transistoreffekts".
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Brattain, Walter, US-amerikanischer Physiker und Nobelpreisträger (1902-1987).
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Add to basket130 : 180 mm. Brustbild von vorn. - Brattain beschäftigte sich vorwiegend mit den Oberflächeneigenschaften von Festkörpern. Nach ersten Untersuchungen an Wolfram galt sein Interesse vor allem Oberflächeneffekten an Halbleitern wie Silicium und Germanium, zu deren besserem Verständnis er wesentliche Beiträge lieferte. Zusammen mi…t John Bardeen entwickelte er den Punktkontakttransistor. Brattain erhielt 1956 zusammen mit William B. Shockley und John Bardeen den Nobelpreis für Physik für ihre Untersuchungen über Halbleiter und ihre Entdeckung des Transistoreffekts".
1. Physical principles involved in transistor action. 2. The theory of p-n junctions in semiconductors and p-n junction transistors. 3. Communication theory of secrecy systems
Bardeen, John; Brattain, Walter; Shockley, William; Shannon, Claude
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Contact seller4-star sellerFirst edition. First Comprehensive Report on the Transistor, with Shannon's Foundation of Modern Cryptography (1) Bardeen, John (1908-91) and Brattain, Walter (1902-87). Physical principles involved in transistor action. In Bell System Technical Journal 28, no. 2 (April 1949): 239-77. (2) Shockley, William (1910-89). The theory…of p-n junctions in semiconductors and p-n junction transistors. In ibid.: 435-89. (3) Shannon, Claude (1916-2001). Communication theory of secrecy systems. In ibid.: 656-715. Whole volume. iv, 753, [1], v-viii pp. Illustrated. 221 x 148 mm. Library buckram. Very good. Library stamps and label on endpapers. (1) First Editions. No. (1), Bardeen and Brattain's paper, is the first comprehensive report on the point-contact transistor, created in December 1947 and announced in three brief papers published in the Physical Review in 1948. The transistor gradually replaced the bulkier vacuum tube, allowing heat reduction and miniaturization of electronic devices. Transistors began to be employed on a large scale in computer manufacturing in the late 1950s; they were eventually miniaturized and incorporated into microprocessors. Bardeen and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics with William Shockley (see below) for their investigations of semiconductors (the materials of which transistors are made) and for their discovery of the transistor. Origins of Cyberspace 450. No. (2) is a detailed account of the junction transistor invented by Shockley shortly after Bardeen and Brattain's invention of the point-contact transistor. Shockley's design marked a substantial improvement over the point-contact transistor, whose "delicate mechanical configuration would be difficult to manufacture in high volume with sufficient reliability" (Computer History Museum, "The silicon engine: A timeline of semiconductors in computers" [internet reference]). Shockley disagreed with Bardeen and Brattain's explanation of how the transistor worked, claiming that "positively charged holes could also penetrate through the bulk germanium material-not only trickle along a surface layer. Called 'minority carrier injection,' this phenomenon was crucial to operation of his junction transistor, a three-layer sandwich of n-type and p-type semiconductors separated by p-n junctions. This is how all 'bipolar' junction transistors work today" (ibid.). Bell Laboratories began manufacturing junction transistors in quantity in 1951; they dominated the market for many years. Magill, Nobel Prize Winners: Physics, pp. 675-704. No. (3), Shannon's discussion of cryptography from the viewpoint of information theory, "is one of the foundational treatments (arguably the foundational treatment) of modern cryptography. It is also a proof that all theoretically unbreakable ciphers must have the same requirements as the one-time pad [a secret random key used only once]" (Wikipedia). Shannon published an earlier version of his cryptography research in the classified report A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography (Memorandum MM 45-110-02, Bell Laboratories, Sept. 1, 1945). Shannon, Collected Papers, no. 25. .
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Add to basketNew York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1949. 8vo. The entire April issue in original printed wrappers offered. Spine strips with some wear. Small rubberstamp on front wrapper. Otherwise fine. First edition. The first comprehensive report to describe the transistor - one of the most important inventions of the 20th Century. The i…nvention of the transistor was first announced in three short letters by Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley, and Pearson, in The Physical Review (Number 2 Volume 74, 1948). The following year Bardeen and Brattain published the more comprehensive report "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action" [as offered here]. This paper was simultaneously published, the same month, in The Physical Review (Number 8 volume 75). In 1956 Bardeen and Brattain shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". In 1972 Bardeen again received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the development of the theory of superconductivity (BCS-theory), and thus became the only person, until this day, to receive the Nobel Prize more than once in the same field. Hook & Norman: Origins of Cyberspace, No. 450.
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Add to basketSigned vintage photograph, shows Walter Brattain in a chest-up portrait, 3,25 x 5 inch, signed in blue ballpoint ink "Walter Brattain", with very mild signs of wear - in nearly very fine condition.
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Add to basketCondition: VG. NY 1953. first edition. In The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume XXXII, Number 1 January 1953 at pp. 1-41. Whole issue. Bardeen shared Nobel Prize with Shockley and Brattain for the invention of the Transistor in 1956 and he won it agin in 1972. VG plus, slight fading of spine. ownership marks. Text clean; alm…ost no wear at all. Pictures available on request.
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Add to basketPrinted scientific article signed, six page, 8,2 x 11 inch, scientific article entitled `Genesis of the Transistor` by Walter H. Brattain - reprinted from `The Physics Teacher`. March 1968, signed and dated on the first page in blue ballpoint ink "Walter Brattain - Dec 4 1979", with mild signs of wear - in fine to very fine cond…ition.
