Word: transistor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes on inside the mouth when people chew, drink or swallow, Dr. Samuel Adams II, 28, and his associates at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Dental Dispensary, have been bugging the bridgework of volunteers with tiny radio transmitters fitted into dummy teeth. Crammed inside each electronic tooth are a transistor, an induction coil, two capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances. As the subject chews and drinks...
...Brazil, where smugglers bring in an estimated 250,000 transistor radios each year, one Japanese model that retails legally for $46 costs $7.50 at your friendly smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass...
...Five Negroes crowded around Michael Sadev, 17, on a Manhattan express train, demanded his money, insisted he play his transistor radio for them. When Sadev refused, one punk stabbed him in the shoulder while doz ens of other commuters watched-apparently afraid to intervene. All of the Negroes were arrested, but they were released in custody of their parents because they were juveniles and Sadev refused to press charges...
Endowed with virtually unlimited resources and free dom, Bell Lab scientists have made such major breakthrough discoveries as radio astronomy, magnetic-tape recorders, hifi, and the most important invention since World War II, the transistor. Thanks to the transistor...
After the transistor came of age, there was still room for the venerable vacuum tube in the burgeoning world of electronics. But even though that world is getting bigger, its parts are getting smaller. Transistors, diodes, tunnel diodes and their proliferating cousins are getting more versatile as they shrink. And the vacuum tube is slowly dying out like the ancient dinosaur. At the annual exhibition held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, there was scarcely a tube anywhere to be seen...