{"id":28527,"date":"2024-04-22T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28527"},"modified":"2024-04-22T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:27:27","slug":"snap-shot-or-tech-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/snap-shot-or-tech-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"snap shot or tech shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28529\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SB100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28529\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SB100-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My SB100 transistor on a breadboard experimental setup<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the early days of transistors, the tiny marvels couldn&#8217;t operate very far beyond audio frequencies. In the late 1950s, Philco managed to create a transistor usable at radio freqencies. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surface-barrier_transistor\">SB100 transistor<\/a>, as it was named, was offered to experimenters.<\/p>\n<p>Shown here is a breadboard assembly acting as a radio receiver with a CK722 transistor as an audio amplifier also on a breadboard.<\/p>\n<p>While the photo at left is a snapshot, a branch of photography focussed on capturing images of technical products &#8211; for advertisements, catalogues, manuals, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the early days of transistors, the tiny marvels couldn&#8217;t operate very far beyond audio frequencies. In the late 1950s, Philco managed to create a transistor usable at radio freqencies. The SB100 transistor, as it was named, was offered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/snap-shot-or-tech-shot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[495,100,4337],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-photograph","tag-photography","tag-transistors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28539,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions\/28539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}