Volume 2  #1 Vintage Elctrics -   Table of Contents

In Memoriam... Kenneth D. Smith, By Edward A. Sharpe............................................................................ 2

Editor's Comer By Edward A. Sharpe, Museum Archivist............................................................................ 3

The Letter From Ian Ross, President of AT&T Bell Laboratories About K.D. Smith................................... 4

K.D. Smith Memoriam By Dave Smith............................................................................................................ 5

K. D. Smith - Memories By James M. Early................................................................................................... 6

In Memoriam - Kenneth D. Smith By Robert Ryder................................................................. 7

K. D. Smith and the Telephone Click Reducer By Dave Smith.................................................................... 8

The Early Days Of The Transistor, 1946 To 1951. By Professor John Bardeen..................................... 10

About John Bardeen..................................................................................................................................... 16

John Bardeen, Transistor Pioneer Dies at 82 (Added since release ofV.E.).......................................... 17

The World Mourns The Passing Of A Great Physicist By Edward A. Sharpe.......................................... 17

The Phototransistor, With Permission, Bell Laboratories RECORD May 1950....................................... 18

The Coaxial Transistor, With Permission, Bell Laboratories RECORD April 1949.................................. 19

The Junction Transistor, Bell Laboratories RECORD, August 1951 "".""""""""""".""".""." 20

SMEC Update................................................................................................................................................. 22

Grown Junction Transistor Development K. D. Smith, Bell Laboratories RECORD................................ 23

Forty-Year Old Plastic Transistors By Howard Dicken................................................................................ 27

1951 Transistor Symposium at Murray Hill Bell Telephone RECORD November 1951......................... 28

The Great Transistor Symposium Of 1951, An Attendee's Viewpoint by Morgan E. McMahon............ 29

About Morgan McMahon.............................................................................................................................. 30

Duplicating Ma Bell"s Cooking By Morgan E. McMahon........................................................................... 31

Exploratory Development Characteristics For The BTL M1752 Transistor.............................................. 32

SMEC Update................................................................................................................................................. 33

Teachers Taught About Transistors, Bell Telephone Laboratories Record Aug. 1952......................... 34

Junction Tetrode Transistor By R. 1. Wallace, Jr. Transmission Research............................................. 35

About R. L. Wallace, Jr.,................................................................................................................................ 37

The "Friendly Effect" In Early Transistors. By Robert Ryder....................................................................... 39

About Robert M. Ryder .................................................................................................... 40

Some Transistor Chronology From.............................................................................................................. 40

The Bell Telephone Laboratories RECORD .............................................................................................. 40

The Development of Diffusion For Semiconductor Device Fabrication By John Fairfield....................... 41

About John Fairfield....................................................................................................................................... 42

The Transistor or Serendipity and the Space Age. By W. Cullen Moore.................................................. 43

The Human Side Of Early Electronics And Semiconductors By Ivan Saddler......................................... 44

AboutIvanR. Saddler...................................................................................................................................... 47

Ed Sharpe's First Encounter With Transistors............................................................................................. 47

The K.D. Smith Collection. By Edward A. Sharpe Archivist""""""""""""".""""".""""". 48 The Life Of K. D. Smith At Bell Laboratories By Edward A. Sharpe""""".".""""".""""".". 52 The Bell Solar Battery By D. M. Chapin, C. S. Fuller, and G. 1. Pearson, BTL RECORD""."""". 58

About The Authors......................................................................................................................................... 60

Bell Solar Battery in Experimental Service, Bell Laboratories RECORD, November 1955..................... 61

Echo - America I s First Communications Satellite By John R. Pierce..................................... 63

About John R. Pierce ....................................................................................................... 66

Telstar Success, Bell Laboratories RECORD, July - August 1962 ".""""""."."""""".""""."" 67

Telstar I - Dawn of a New Age Copyright-- 1. M. Early 1990 """"".................................... """...................... """.................... " 69

About James M. Early....................................................................................................................................... 71

Telstar, A History. By John R. Pierce.""""""""""""""""""""""""."".""""""""""" 71

A Visit With A.C. Dickieson, Telstar's Project Manager. By Edward A. Sharpe - SMEC.......................... 75

Index............................................................................................................................... 85