From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   >> 7. Transistor: The year when American physicists John Bardeen,   
   >>    Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented this semiconductor   
   >>    device at Bell Labs.   
   >   
   > 1947 (accepting 1942-52).  4 for Joshua, Dan Blum, Pete, Dan Tilque,   
   > and Erland.   
      
   You really need to learn to read my entries more closely. I was one   
   year outside the allowed margin.   
      
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