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Transistors

Date released

12 May 1958

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

176

NoS ID

120551

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: We go behind the scenes at a transistor factory to see how these tiny things - used in equipment as varied as guided missiles and radio sets - are manufactured. The fascinating processes...

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Astable and Monostable Multivibrator Circuits, The (1979 Multimedia)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Audible pulse cue in commentary and automatic slide change pulse (1 kHz - Philips system) on separate track.

The multivibrator family, astable, monstable and bistable circuits. The silicon and germanium transistors as switches, departures from the ideal switch. The astable multivibrator as an RC coupled feedback...

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Toys Get with It

Date released

13 Jan 1964

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

64/5

NoS ID

111002

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Transistors put magic into latest toys worthy of scientific age.

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Semiconductors, Diodes and Transmitters (2012)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 22 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

This film demonstrates the operation of semiconductors, diodes and transistors, and explains how the invention of the integrated circuit and transistor has revolutionised electronics. Viewers will learn...

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Electronic Horse Race

Date released

21 Feb 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/102

NoS ID

112452

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Punters must have their flutter despite the Foot and Mouth Epidemic. So it’s electronics to the rescue. At the University of London the Massey Ferguson Gold Cup was run over a circuit of transistors to...

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Making of Modern Electronics, The (1986 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min., 1995 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Band 1: How boules or ingots - single crystals of semiconducting materials - are produced by the silicon industry. Band 2: Shows the process stages for the BY249 diode, with explanations of some of the...

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Hearing Aids

Date released

13 May 1957

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

124

NoS ID

120383

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: In this fascinating collection of aids to hearing there is a 19th-century silver-chased ear trumpet, a walking stick-cum-hearing aid and an early example of a device which used radio valves...

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Principles of the Transistor, The (1957 Film)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Early use of crystals; working principles of the germanium diode and the transistor; applications and advantages.

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Mullards

Date released

Dec 1964

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

31

NoS ID

327658

Story no

5 / 6

COI synopsis: The assembly in Britain of miniature transistors, which will eventually be used in electronic apparatus for space travel.

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Making Electronic Appliances

Date released

Mar 1965

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

11

NoS ID

324639

Story no

4 / 5

COI synopsis: At a British electronics factory tiny transistors, so small that they can only be handled by using a high-powered microscope, are made. This process leads on to the making of "thin film" micro...

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