Advertisements of Vintage Transistors and Diodes
Here are some vintage advertisements of early transistors devices. These advertisements where often spectacular and associated with rocket power and technology. I'm always looking for new advertisements papers to complete my collection, so if you would like to sell or exchange something, please contact me, jan@transparentsound.com.
| Texas Instruments | Type | : | Silicon Transistor Devices |
| Manufacturer | : | Texas Instruments, 6000 Lemmon Avenue Dallas 9. Texas | |
| Year | : | February 1958 | |
| Magazine | : | Fortune, page 95 | |
| Slogan | Rocket power Controlled by Transistors | ||
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"Power Steering" devices for today's thundering missiles require tiny silicon transistors. Texas Instruments produces over 90% of commercial output of these vital components. Only silicon transistors can survive missile flight conditions: Heat up to nearly twice that of boiling water... severe shock and vibration... extreme restrictions on size, weight, and power-drain to assure maximum payload and distance. |
| Philco MADT | Type | : | Micro Alloy Diffused-base Transistor, MADT-series |
| Manufacturer | : | Philco, Lansdale Tube Company Division | |
| Year | : | January 1958 | |
| Magazine | : | Fortune, page 233 | |
| Slogan | Speed | ||
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From Philco Transistor Centre, USA. comes speed far beyond human perception. Philco's new MADT transistors represent a major breakthrough in the electronics switching frequency barrier... switching speeds measured in millimicroseconds (1musec-the time it takes light to go 1 foot ..traveling at 186,000 miles per second!). |
| Philco MADT | Type | : | Micro Alloy Diffused-base Transistor, MADT-series |
| Manufacturer | : | Philco, Lansdale Tube Company Division | |
| Year | : | March 1958 | |
| Magazine | : | Fortune, page 34 | |
| Slogan | Reliability | ||
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Meet the mighty midgets of modern electronics...new, virtually indestructible surface barrier transistors from Philco Transistor Centre, USA. Here are transistors so reliable that they have amassed tens of millions of transistor service hours in computer circuits at a leading University...transistors so rugged that they have withstood a rocket plunge from 126miles above the earth and continued to operate with original performance characteristics. |
These advertisements are from Craig Belliveau, see his Ebay shop; 20th Century Original Advertising