On 16 December 1947, after months of labor and refinement, the Bell Labs physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain accomplished their essential experiment proving the effectiveness of the point-contact transistor. Six months later, Bell Labs gave an illustration to officers from the U.S. army, who selected to not classify the expertise due to its probably broad functions. The following week, information of the transistor was launched to the press. The New York Herald Tribune predicted that it will trigger a revolution within the electronics trade. It did.