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Programmable Crystal Oscillators with Sub-ps Jitter and Multiple Frequency Capability

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The August 23, 1943 issue of LIFE Magazine carried the following letter to the editor: Sirs: In proportion to size these little glass like quartz wafers are perhaps the most remarkable of all the tools science has given to war. When the story of the almost incredible progress in research and manufacture of radio crystals can be told, it will prove to be a tale of one of the war's greatest achievements. No less significant will be the fruit of the advancement to a world at peace where crystals will be the vibrating hearts of most telecommunications equipment. Gerald James Holton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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