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

[Dave Sica]

The program will be online at www.njarc.org.




On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:13:07 -0400 Dave Sica <davesica at juno.com> writes:
> 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.
> > 
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