| 1987.0487.378 | Texas Instruments Collection | Object |
| Germanium Point Contact Transistor TI number: G00018 Represents the first commercial transistor designed and produced by TI. The germanium was processed by TI. Type numbers were TI101 & TI102. Points are phosphor bronze and beryllium copper. Sufficiently pure germanium was purchased, mostly from Eagle-Pitcher. It was then refined by a float zone process at TI. Material of the desired resistivity was then used to grow single crystals for the transistors. Related material in collection: G00002, 3, G00015, 16, 17. |
| Texas Instruments (Jim Lacy, Mac McBride, Steve Karnavas.)
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