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Originally Posted by exvaxman
I seem to remember a story where the "drive tube" was amplified by "Crystal Valves" that replaced the older "vacuum valves". A stretch, but who knows. And did you know that there was credible evidence that a Nazi lab had a working transistor at the end of the war? I spoke with one of the investigators that said that the physical lab was destroyed in bombings, but there were notebooks that described the work.
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I get the impression that there were a few separate efforts going on, combining the work of numerous earlier patents and research, including in Russia. We may never know if the Nazis figured it out first, or had just a sound theory, all we know for sure is Bell created a working model and documented it first.