Tube Dreams

[Bill Turner]

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:18:25 -0800, "Peter G. Wittenberg"
<k2lrc at EROLS.COM> wrote:

>Well gentlemen, It seems to me that semiconductors did exist before
>Tubes.......remember the crystal radios that used a point contact diode
>called a galena crystal.
>
>So we did have the new technology at hand and dropped that to invent the
>Tube.
>
>73 Peter K2LRC CCA #00169
>
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Yep, so true.  I believe the reason it was dropped is that no one
really understood the physics behind the galena crystal and therefore
had no basis to pursue it further.  It took Bardeen, Brattain and
Schockley to make it all come clear.

73, Bill W7TI

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