The origin of the word transistor is from the two words Transfer Resistor . It is so named because the transistor transmits the signal from the low-voltage circuit to the high-voltage circuit. In 1947, three researchers from the Bell Laboratory in the United States, J. J. Bardeen, w . H. WH Brattain and W. Brattain. W. Shockley invented the transistor. The invention of the transistor is one of the best inventions of the twentieth century.