Harry Huskey, above, was a young mathematician building the SWAC computer when he was a contestant on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life radio show. In this audio recording of the May 10, 1950 episode, ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...