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EARLY
TRANSISTOR HISTORY AT GE An Interview with Carl David Todd Recollections from the First Days of Transistor Technology |
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Oral History – Carl David Todd (Continued) |
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Shown above is a section
of the cover page of Carl’s transistor construction article, entitled “The
Injecto-cal”, which appeared in the August 1956 issue of Radio and Television
News. The device, designed as a
troubleshooting aid for radio and electronic equipment technicians and
experimenters, used the newly announced GE 2N107 hobbyist transistors. To the right is a photo from a GE in-house
publication, showing Carl demonstrating his Injecto-cal to executives from GE
and the magazine. (Next to Carl is
Jim Sweeney, the GE Semiconductor Marketing Manager; next is Bill Stocklin, the editor of the Radio
and TV News magazine, and on the left is Charles Tepfer, the service editor
from the same magazine). As a GE
employee, Carl had just won a $15 award for having his article accepted for
publication in R&TV News – this was in conjunction with a GE program to
encourage employees to promote the use of the new transistor technology.
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