{"id":262,"date":"2020-08-28T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2020-08-28T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:40:44","slug":"a-glance-back-in-history-manufacturing-your-own-transistors-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/a-glance-back-in-history-manufacturing-your-own-transistors-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A glance back in History &#8211; Manufacturing your own transistors &#8211; At home!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are living in an industrial age, electronics components are easily available. They are dirt cheap. I would like to share a few pages from an old book that I have recently found on a book-archive site on the internet. It is freely available for download, so I thought I would add a bit of history and share it with my fellow electronics enthusiasts&#8230;<br><br>The Book is called &#8220;Practical Transistors and Transistor Circuits&#8221; by JS Kendal.<br>It was first published in August 1954&#8230;<br><br>This is chapter 1, which I find the most interesting, I sincerely hope you will find it interesting too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" height=\"541\" data-src=\"http:\/\/144.126.248.244\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/p1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/p1.png 396w, https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/p1-220x300.png 220w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 85vw, 396px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 396px; 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They are dirt cheap. I would like to share a few pages from an old book that I have recently found on a book-archive site on the internet. It is freely available for download, so I thought I would add a bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/a-glance-back-in-history-manufacturing-your-own-transistors-at-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A glance back in History &#8211; Manufacturing your own transistors &#8211; At home!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makeriot2020.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}