[NJARC] FW: InfoAge Event Reminder, Sunday - April 27, 2008

[Dave Sica]

The "Crystal Clear" presentation at InfoAge promises to be well worth
attending. But if you can't get there, we're *planning* on webcasting it
live. (InfoAge isn't quite as well wired as the Sarnoff Auditorium, but
it looks like things should work.) So cross your fingers and tune in at
2:00 pm tomorrow

--Dave Sica



On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:02:45 -0400 "Stephen F. Goulart"
<sfgvoip at optonline.net> writes:
> This should be an interesting talk for those of us interested in 
> old electronics.
> Steve Goulart
> 
> 
>  Hello All,
> 
>    A reminder of this talk - Sunday 2:00 PM,
> 
> Thank you,
> Fred Carl
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Important Roll of quartz crystals in WW2
>     If you love World War 2 history and radio technology this event 
> is for
> you.  In the Marconi Hotel at Camp Evans on Sunday, April 27 at 2:00 
> PM
> author Richard J. Thompson Jr. will relate an amazing industrial 
> and
> technology feat of World War 2.
>     The feat was creating a quartz crystal industry where none 
> existed.  The
> key to victory was reliable communications between troops and 
> command.  At
> the onset of the war the allies did not have reliable supply of 
> quality
> quartz crystals for radios that would hold the selected channel.  
> When you
> lost your radio channel you had problems.  You could not get 
> warnings of an
> enemy attack or call for reinforcements.  Quartz crystals that would 
> hold
> the desired channel were needed in every radio, radar unit and 
> beacon.
> Radios were needed in every plane, tank, command center, for spies 
> and for
> every platoon.
>     In 1942 the U.S. was threatened with a serious shortage of 
> imported
> quartz and domestic production was negligible.  Millions of crystals 
> were
> needed and there was no industry capable of producing them.   Hear 
> how Fort
> Monmouth engineers gave the allies the key to victory by meeting 
> the
> production challenge, solving the myriad of difficult problems that 
> arose in
> the field and how they laid the foundation for the post war 
> electronics and
> TV industry.
>     The epi-center of this world wide drama was the Long Branch 
> Signal
> Laboratory (LBSL) once located on Joline Ave in Long Branch.  There 
> highly
> specialized technicians, many woman, used their home front energies 
> to make
> sure allied troops had the finest crystals possible.
>     "We were heavily armed and we had crystals" is how veteran 
> Irwin
> Gottlieb of the Big Red One, attributed their ability to defend 
> themselves
> against often times much larger German units.  This is strong 
> testimony to
> the value of communications to the front line troops.   A WW2 poster 
> seen in
> a photo of a crystal cutting room in the LBSL and quoted in a 1943 
> Time
> Magazine article reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE
> ... -------ON THE RUN."  In radio code the dots & dashes spell SOB.
>      Author Richard J. Thompson, Jr. PhD is the Dean of Mathematics 
> and
> Sciences at The College if Saint Rose in Albany.  The event at the 
> InfoAge
> Science-History Center is sponsored by the New Jersey Coast Section 
> of the
> IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) and 
> the book
> is endorsed by the IEEE History Center at Rutgers.  There is no 
> admission
> charge and copies of the author signed book will be on sale.   See
> www.infoage.org for directions.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> NJARC mailing list
> NJARC at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc
> 
>