"The world’s largest transistor in Holmdel may not be part of an actual circuit, but it is a nod and tribute to the invention of the transistor on the old Bell Labs campus," the Jersey's Best reports.

"The world’s largest transistor is actually a water tower built to resemble an early version of a transistor invented by three Bell Labs researchers in 1947.

"The tower was built in 1961 during the opening of the Bell Labs facility in Holmdel and stands tall at 60 feet. It looks less like a transistor and more like a huge, three-legged white saucer object, but the transistor tribute still stands tall today at the entrance to the now-shuttered Bell Labs.

"Unique water tower (1961) on the property of Bell Labs owned by AT&T, then Lucent, and then Alcatel. The saucer water tower is modeled after an early transistor, invented by three Labs researchers in 1947. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley later won the Nobel Prize in physics," the 3D Warehouse reports.



"Tribute was erected here in 1961, when they broke ground for the Eero Saarinen-designed building (Saarinen was also the architect for St. Louis's Gateway Arch). It was the Bell System's Bell Labs at the time, then AT&T's Bell Laboratories, then became simply Bell Labs in 1996 with the spin-off of Lucent."

"Old Bell Labs water tower shaped like the world's first production transistor, a revolutionary technology invented in 1947. In front of Eero Saarinen-designed glass sarcophagus," the Roadside America reports.

"Eventually making possible the computer on which you're reading this, the transistor was invented 75 years ago, on December 16, 1947. Comically bulky and slow by today's standards, it replaced the hot, fragile vacuum tubes in electronics and the earliest computers, and made the "transistor radio" the go-to technology for every 1960s teenager.

"Its invention was credited to three researchers at the Murray Hill Bell Laboratories, and the company gave an architectural nod later by creating a giant, sleek, stylized version at its Holmdel Bell Labs facility water tower (now part of the BellWorks developed multi-use campus). Most people think it's just mid-century art, but it's a transistor."

"This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor in 1947. The transistor was invented by William Shockley with his assistants John Bardeen and Walter Brattain," the Atlas Obscura reports.

"Bell Labs immediately recognized how important the transistor was. It was more dependable than the vacuum tube, produced less heat, and was cheaper. AT&T immediately began replacing its vacuum tubes with new devices, allowing clearer conversations with less static, and more dependable components.

"Early computers like the ENIAC with its 18,000 vacuum tubes were down almost half the time due to tube failures. New minicomputers could now be made and IBM, a calculating machine and tabulating company started building computers.  Radios could now be made portable and car radios became common. The transistor also became the heart of the integrated circuit and of the computers and mobile devices we use today."

"There's this unique water tower on the park-like property of the old Bell Labs, resembling an H.G. Wells Martian tripod more than anything. This white, three-legged saucer looms over the entrance drive to the now shuttered research and development facility. The saucer water tower is actually modeled after the design of an early transistor, invented by three Lab researchers in 1947. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and Willian Shockley later won the Nobel Prize in physics."

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