| | Antique Radio Classified: Vintage Transistor Radios |
 | | Although there were working demonstrations of the potential uses of the transistor presented to the audience (audio oscillator, audio amplifier, and radio receiver), no one present could have known or reasonably predicted the tremendous impact that this device would have on technology over the next 50 years. |
 | | The transistor developed by Bell Labs in 1947 was of the type known as "point contact." This term refers to the technique used to attach two fine wires as points of contact to a germanium block, as shown in Figure 1. |
 | | The junction transistor was constructed using a die or chip of germanium, with transistor action accomplished by any of several different manufacturing techniques, such as adding controlled amounts of impurities to the germanium -- the point contacts, with their inherent drawbacks, had been eliminated. |
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