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Description
Photograph of a woman with Hughes Aircraft Company's manufactured silicon semiconductors, ca.1950. A woman with a mask stands left of a silicon semiconductor, which appears to be a lit tube with coiling around it. More machinery can be seen in the background. Photoprint reads: "Fiery Furnace -- Technician Majorie Johnson watches molten ladle of silicon in electric furnace during first stage of semiconductor manufacture at Hughes Aircraft Company plant in Los Angeles. Perfect silicon crystals, drawn from molten mass shown, are vital 'heart' of Hughes silicon semiconductors. Company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductors, tiny replacements for vacuum tubes in electronic circuitry".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. photographic prints photographs
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