Clean rooms; Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Manufacturing; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technicians; Technology; Vertical diffusion furnaces;
Color photograph of a technician checking wafers processing in a vertical diffusion furnace, one of the many tools through which wafers must pass as they go through the hundreds of steps that make up the manufacturing process.
Electric discharges; Scientific apparatus and instruments
When connected to a power source, a bright electric spark would flash between the two ends of the two outer posts. The middle glass post is made of photo gray glass (yellow tinted glass), which would have glowed. This instrument is visible in early...
The Goniometer is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by observing the direction of a beam of light reflected from their face. The instrument was invented by W.H. Wollaston in 1807. Physical Description: Round brass base with black...
Santa Clara College (Calif.); Seismological stations; Earthquakes
the Vertical Component of the Weichert Seismograph circa 1910. Photo taken in the "Octogon-shaped building" shortly after the installation of the Weichert, circa 1910.
Crova's apparatus was designed for the purpose of representing vibratory movements on the screen, with 8 disks. Turning the crank past a vertical slit caused the disks to rotate, while a beam of light from the optical system impinged on the slit...
Vertical Component of the Weichart Seismograph c.1910. Photo taken in the "Octagon-shaped Building" shortly after the installation of the Weichert, probably in 1910.
