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A 1947 industrial research bench: a scratched black bakelite work surface, a jeweller's loupe and tweezers set down beside the assembly, a cloth-corded microphone and a small open-backed loudspeaker further along the bench, a valve power supply in soft focus behind. the spring presses the gold-foil wedge down so that both foil edges at its apex touch the polished top face of the germanium sliver, all mounted on the same small base plate. the three lead wires run continuously from that base plate and the foil islands to the terminal strip on the same bench. the microphone and loudspeaker stand on the same bench surface, their cloth leads running toward the same terminal strip. The whole assembly would sit comfortably on a coin: the wedge is about a centimetre on a side and the germanium sliver the size of a grain of rice. 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