[ARC5] Crystals in WWII

[Dennis Monticelli]

Interesting and quiet believable.

Dennis AE6C

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Back in the early 70's an engineering professor at the Univ of South
> Carolina was doing research into advanced semiconductor materials.
>
> We noted that boxes with military markings showing up.  Turned out that
> the US was surplusing a lot of its crystal growing and manufacturing
> equipment.  Stockpiles of the gear had been built up decades before, in
> order to prepare for another WWII-style war.  By 1970 they came to the
> conclusion that synthesized radios and other modern frequency control
> techniques meant the stuff was no longer needed.
>
> Wayne
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