The transistor was one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century.    From LearnThat.org. 

The transistor is indeed the tool we need to do the things that the future of our business requires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telephony—A New Era in the Making] Reference

But the transistor is more than just a simplified, economical replacement for a larger piece of equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telephony—A New Era in the Making] Reference

The photo-transistor is a member of the transistor family behaving like a photo-electric cell, or maybe to you, an electric eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telephony—A New Era in the Making] Reference

If a transistor is a switch, the gate is what throws it.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A transistor is a sandwich of two pieces of one type and a single piece of the other type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference

The transistor was his property and he was in the habit of using it to obtain racing results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cargo of Eagles]

They were called transistor radios and if you remember that you are officially old just like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections on James Brown] Reference

The transistor is a good example, an invention which when first devised was a thing about the size of a Chiclet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indistinguishable From Magic] Reference

Sure, the transistor is a one-shot idea, but the only comparable one-shots in human history are fire and the wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Gorbachev the Most Influential Man of the Second Half of the 20th Century?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The transistor is the first to mimic a crucial process used by brain cells, or neurons, when the cells signal one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

‡ The transistor is the basic device used in miniaturized electronic systems, such as portable radios, or as a fast switch in computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [transistor] Reference

Next to electricity and perhaps the pathology of bacteria, the transistor is the greatest scientific development in the history of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Reckoning] Reference

The samples used by von Klitzing were relined versions of a kind of transistor we have in our radios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 - Presentation Speech] Reference

In the kind of transistor that von Klitzing used, some of the electrons are bound to the interface between two parts of the transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 - Presentation Speech] Reference

In 1948 he coined the term "transistor" for the small, electronic switch invented at Bell Labs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amygdala] Reference

900V between each transistor which is stable even after high temperature fabrication process over 800°C.    From Wordnik.com.  [EE Times-Asia] Reference

"transistor". homebrew LED, I've begun experimenting with carborundum to create my own point-contact transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAKE Magazine] Reference

Of progress, and used his column in the local newspaper to moan about voguish inventions such as transistor radios and telephones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

A transistor is a transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

"The transistor boys are really doing it up brown.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution] Reference

The transistor put the information age into high-gear.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Gadgets - January 1, 2000] Reference

In 1960, a highquality transistor cost several dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interactive Life] Reference

Bell Labs produced the point-contact transistor for 10 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transistor] Reference

Brattain recalled: their transistor boosted power 450 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transistor] Reference

But by 1954 production of the junction transistor had overtaken it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transistor] Reference

In 1945, work began on what eventually became known as the transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Gadgets - January 1, 2000] Reference

Miniaturization begins with the transistor, which was invented in 1947.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Magic Wands] Reference

A lot of people walking around with transistor radios in the '50s and' 60s.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2003] Reference

That summer, there were dozens of campers who'd brought transistor radios with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binky Philips: The "Satisfaction" Of Charlie Watts Hitting Me In The Face] Reference

A chip's transistor components and the spaces between them are measured in nanometers.    From Wordnik.com.  [UMC Profit More Than Triples] Reference

In fact, Intel climbed 3 1/2, saying it has built the world's smallest and fastest transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Supreme Court Hears Bush Challenge to Manual Recounts - December 11, 2000] Reference

His "junction transistor" amplified current just like Brattain and Bardeen's "point-contact" transistor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transistor] Reference

It created an AM radio station, Radio Recovery, and handed out thousands of free transistor radios to help residents find assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Warnings] Reference

A talk-radio program blares from a transistor in the corner, while a small TV on top of a filing cabinet broadcasts prayers at low volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [COPS, KILLERS & MOLES] Reference