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...Assembly voted its approval by a whopping 60 to 19. Next day in the Senate, with neither Kasavubu nor even Senate President Ileo himself daring to show up for the debate. Lumumba repeated his snow job with some added embellishments. He waved sheaves of money and held up a transistor radio, claiming they had been taken from a "Belgian spy," presumably a local white who later was produced quivering at a press conference. The Senators had to hear the explanation of the term "vote of confidence" eleven times before they understood what the ballots were for. But then...
...hand-size shortwave transistor radio. Produced by Bulova Watch Co., it can pick up shortwave stations round the world. Price...
...transistor radio the size of a sugar cube. Developed for the Army by RCA. it will make possible a wristwatch radio...
...Transistor medical-recording devices. Soon to be available to doctors, they can be swallowed, will track down causes of a patient's stomach upset...
...transistor grew out of a "parlor trick" in Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device...