Semiconductor display board
date: label: date made
content: 1962
name: label: maker
content: Bell Laboratories
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Semiconductor display board with eight devices employed in Telstar satellite project as labeled: "Transistors / Low Power Amplification / High Frequency Amplification / Logic Functions / Power Control. Diodes / Voltage Limiting / Logic Functions / Frequency Conversion / Rectification and Voltage Regulation". These devices are representative of 52 different types of transistors and 39 types of diodes used for various functions in the satellite. Each Telstar contained a total of 2640 semiconductor devices.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from American Telephone & Telegraph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.322970
label: catalog number
content: 322970
label: accession number
content: 247512
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Satellite, Parts of
label: Object Name
content: semiconductors
label: Object Name
content: transistors
label: Object Name
content: diodes
label: Other Terms
content: Satellite, Parts of; Components
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 15 in x 1 1/8 in; 30.48 cm x 38.1 cm x 2.8575 cm