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Fossils And Ultrasonics OLD FOSSILS CAN BE DIFFICULT was, 60 years ago, the headline on an ad in Electronics Weekly’s issue of January 25th 1961. The ad continues: This isn’t normally a problem page but today we have a question for anyone who may have swerved across to us from the editorial columns. It is this. How would you clean a fossil? Imagine it to be a particularly valuable fossil, so delicate that you don’t care to handle it without witnesses, so fragile that you worry about old S...

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UK Lab Looks For Space Exports A GROUP of senior engincers is being formed by Decca Radar Ltd. to inaugurate research and development effort in space electronics. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961 The story continues: The team will be led by Dr. K. Milne. who has made 3 special study of microwave aenals and allied subjects. Initial programmes on track-ing and low-noise receiving systems will start soon at new laboratories now being prepared...

The Advantages Of Miniature Components We read with great interest your Comment on micro-miniaturisation and solid-state circuitry in Electronics Weekly of March 15.  Part of your article referred to “conventional miniature construction”，and it is on this aspect, in relation to miniature components, that we wish to reply. So, 60 years ago, started a letter to the Editor of Electronics Weekly in its edition of March 29th 1961. The letter continues: Contrary to your statement ‘present s...

At last, one for the beam makers In a world where mid-power and CoBs seem to be dominating in lighting, it is refreshing to see a high-intensity 1mm die power les appear – in this case Cree’s lens-less XLamp XP-P, which comes in the 3.45 x 3.45mm XP package. “With up to 700 lm available at max current, the XP-P enables tighter beam angles and much longer throw distances than any previous XLamp LED. XP-P LEDs are built to last in extreme applications, with high operating temperature limi...

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UK made: Quad band satellite simulator for Earth stations Atlantic Microwave has launched a quad-band satellite simulator for multiple frequency loop-back testing at satellite earth stations. Working over C, X, Ku and Ka bands simultaneously, it permits earth station set-up without a satellite to connect to. “The Quadband Satellite Simulator makes testing multiple frequencies easier as up to four ground terminals can be tested at the same time, rather than having to set-up individual systems ...

BRITISH electronic organisations are strongly supporting an interlocking system of technical standardisation which is to be set up in Europe. So, 60 years

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