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Why was the transistor invented?

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Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. ... The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs.

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