Word: transistor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovery was made by Dr. Wilhelm Rindner while he was poking under a microscope with a delicate probe, studying surface defects on a tiny transistor. The transistor was hooked up to a voltmeter, and Dr. Rindner soon noticed something peculiar: even his gentlest pokes at the transistor made the voltmeter fluctuate. He concluded that the transistor was sensitive to pressure as well as to electrical effects...
...Frondizi six months ago was compounded last week by an ugly civil war among the country's ruling military brass. Argentine artillery fired on Argentine tanks; Argentine air force planes strafed Argentine infantrymen. Bewildered civilians wandered through Buenos Aires' streets, sunny in the . South American spring, holding transistor radios to their ears and trying to figure out what they were fighting about...
...Japanese maritime agency refused to sanction his trip on the grounds that it was "suicidal"; his frantic parents begged him to stay home. But Kenichi Horie, 23, a transistor-size auto parts salesman from Osaka, was a determined man. Last May 12 he crammed...
...most Tristan islanders, it seems a bad exchange.*Looking at his first TV show, an old man said, "I don't think much of it; the people are too small." After making a down payment on a transistor radio, another Tristan islander was baffled by the bill for the next installment, asked, "How often does a man have to pay for the same thing in h'England?" On Tristan da Cunha, the only wage-earning job was in the local crayfish cannery, where everyone got the same pay. In England, the visitors could not comprehend the idea...
...free demonstration of an appliance or to a music store to listen to a phonograph record, confident that they would come back to buy at the discount price. More and more department stores began to match the discounters penny for penny on such competitive items as refrigerators, television sets, transistor radios and toys, using them as loss leaders and making up the difference on other high markup items -notably clothing...