Following the successful completion of the merger arrangements, shares of Pye and E. K.Cole have been withdrawn from the lists and the shares of the new joint company, British Electronic Industries, have made their bow in the market. So started the feature ‘A Week In The City’ in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The article continued: Dealings began ...
Memory Lane
US Space Chief Sums Up NASA Exploration Plans
THE Kennedy administration has now taken over a space exploration programme, which its present chief administrator regards as soundly based, though underfunded in some respects. In an interview with this correspondent, T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of the National Acronautics and Space Administration, made these points: A sound programme of space exploration and exploitation for non-military purposes for the ...
Computer sales growing at 50% per year
In the last five years, the production of digital computers in Britain has risen from 15 to more than 100 machines annually. So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961 The story continues: At the same time, the number of major companies in the market has risen from three to 14; only eight ...
Computer Explosion Coming?
This was a headline, 65 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25, 1961 The story ran: THE growth of the electronic data processing industry will become explosive in nature during the next few years, according to Mr. Walter W. Finke, president of Honeywell’s Electronic Data Processing Division. The most substantial growth, he predicted, will be ...
Transdeptor enables long-range transmission of depth measurement
The ‘Transdeptor’ – a remote reading fluid depth gauge developed bySolartron’s Transducer Division – provides a reliable method of transmitting depth measurements over considerable distances. So, 65 years ago started a story in Electronics Week,y’s edition of January 25th 1961 The story continues: The pressure sensing element, a type NT4-980 Solartron pressure transducer, consists of a thin-walled metal cylinder which ...
The First High Vacuum Variable Capacitors Made In Britain
65 years ago, this ad appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26th 1961:
Electromechanical polishing of semiconductor wafers
ELECTROCHEMICAL polishing of wafers of semiconducting material is claimed to be faster, more efficient and to offer a 50% saving in cost over conventional methods So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 26th 1961. The story continued: The use of the system was revealed recently by Mr. M. Sullivan of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, ...
Moscow-London Direct TV Relay
THE first direct TV relay from Moscow to London took place on April 13, the occasion of Major Gagarin’s return to Moscow after his round-the-world space voyage. So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 19 1961. The story continued: It has been arranged between the BBC and the USSR State Committee for Radio and ...
The Trannie
Grundig Radio have produced a pocket radio no bigger than two matchboxes put sided by side (3″ by 2″ by 1″). So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 19th 1961 The story continued: It weighs just over five ounces including batteries and contains six transistors, a ferrite aerial and a miniature loudspeaker of approximately ...
Town May Buy Speed Check Gear
TYNEMOUTH Corporation Watch Committee, states that the Chief Constable has reported that the cost of a portable electronic traffic analyser – the main part of the radar speed check equipment – Is £550. So, 64 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15, 1951 In addition, two sets of walkie-talkie wireless equipment would be required ...
