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> During World War II military scientists invented the transistor, a semiconductor device that paved the way for miniature recording devices smaller than sugar cubes and thinner than postage stamps to flood espionage markets.

This goes against common knowledge (that the FET was first invented by Lilienfeld in the 1920s, and that the germanium transistor was invented by Bardeen and Brattain at Bell Labs in the 1940s). Points to anyone that can produce evidence to support this claim that it was invented during WWII.

Friendly reminder that nothing sent over public internet infrastructure without additional security measures is truly private. Also, pardon Snowden.