The Writer's Almanac from Saturday, December 23, 2000 “The Gift,” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Volume II 1939-1962 (New Directions). ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2000 ORIGINAL TEXT - 2000 On this day in 1947, three physicists—John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley—demonstrated a transistor to executives at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. That
Re the transistor, this is clearly why people keep junk drawers