Delayed Transistors

[pieman97405]

With a POD of 1945, is there any way to delay the invention of the transistor for ten or twenty years? Or is it impossible without an earlier POD?

 

[pnyckqx]

With a POD of 1945, is there any way to delay the invention of the transistor for ten or twenty years? Or is it impossible without an earlier POD?

Probably not. Even if you have an accident at Bell Laboratories that kills William Shockley and his team, the basic theory is in place.

It is simply a matter of applied material science. The theoretical work had been around since at least 1942.