LAB GROWN QUARTZ CRYSTALS: HOW IT'S DONE
LAB GROWN QUARTZ CRYSTALS: HOW IT'S DONE
This took a long time to locate. Here at last, is a video that FULLY explains how lab grown quartz crystal was developed by Bell Labs/Western Electric. Produced in 1962, it reveals a truly amazing process, and is a wonderful companion to the videos I have uploaded regarding the quartz crystals grown in the erstwhile Soviet Union. You will see that these remarkable crystals are actually re-crystallized natural quartz that was flawed or otherwise imperfect when it grew within the earth. Science enables the re-growth of PERFECT crystals in a tiny fraction of the time nature took. Those of you who have been reluctant to use lab grown crystals should have a new perspective on them after viewing this video. All footage is courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ
Nice and beautifull video!!! very ilustrative.
What is the solution? Probably mostly liquid water?
clearer(purer) than natural
5:22 …just reminding you that most scientists and engineers prefer Camel cigarettes to all other brands!
You shouldn’t call people ugly.
i like this video, it confirms some sort of ignorance the masses have for what technology truly originates from. and i get warm fuzzies when i read through all these comments.
I have two or more of the vacuum tube crystals for double checking the frequency accuracy of my amateur radio transmitters, and the digital transmitters also have tiny crystals to control the frequency with an accuracy undreamed about back when these films were made.
The size of the quartz crystals grown today are so huge, it boggles the mind that they are also perfect as well!
Tiny slips of crystal quartz regulates everything from radios to navigation satellites, and they are all made to order, and the cost is much less than gold with the technology developed back in the 1940s and 50s!
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Fascinating!!
Before they are ready to carry voices to distant places
good old days
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
Golden age of American technologies
my grandad was growing Quartz just after WW2 1948, first lasers in southwest UK, so proud of him x
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This is awesome. Thank you for posting
Nothin’ like a smoke to stimulate the brain after too much trial and error!
Hi Bruce, I’m glad you enjoyed the videos. I have been working with crystals for many years. I noticed how little info there was on the growth and production of these, and so I put this collection of videos together. I hope to add more info soon. I have some other remarkable specimens to show. Please stay tuned.
informative job
Ernest Buehler was the man who patented the Auto Clave system at Bells Labs for growing quartz. He appears in around 2:40 of this video. Good looking short grey hair. You can check out the other patents with the Patent Office. Amazing stuff.
Fascinating
Thanks a lot for this I am on the hunt for these kind of videos.
If you have more videos like this please let me know
This is great. Thanks for putting it up! I usually work with natural crystals and recently got into a few lab grown pieces so wanted to learn a bit more. This was great.
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Thanks Ann. The work your grandfather did pioneered the US telecom network and played a BIG roll in the space race.
do we still used quarzt for any thing importaned beside tranzister radio and yes some still work
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5:20 When disappointed by a failure, smoke a cigarette to feel better!
A remnant from the past that yet has value today. Very interesting watch, thanks for preserving it !
that was cool. thanks.
If they pour into the solution that dissolves the quartz crystals then their seeds will also dissolve. If not before, make the solution neutral.
When you go back in time, this is the video you show them
My grandfather was one of the inventors at Bell Labs. I remember that he had some of those holes in his backyard where he was experimenting with growing crystals, and lots of scientific equipment in his basement (1960’s). We have lots of those crystals, as well as the largest one they made. It’s hefty- takes two hands to hold it.
Very good,thanks.
Thanks for putting this up. These old school films are fascinating / pure / raw and full of knowledge. And they show the trials & tribulations. Thanks!
Oh god! It’s the Kindergarten all over again!
Hmm … I wonder what the solvent is.
David Adair was able to grow quartz crystal in outer space…where the Earth’s gravity doesn’t have any influence on the growth….so they grow different from Earth’s quartz crystal…applications are endless…they say hypothetically, they can integrate the material into clothing fabric sheet and place a sheet in front covering a child and you can shoot a machine gun at the fabric sheet and never harm the child.
I remember seeing this film at an open house years ago at the Western Electric Merrimac Valley Works in North Andover Mass. My grandfather was the man sealing the crystals in the vacuum tube. If he were still around, he would be 104 years old. I figure he was around 52 years old in this film. He loved his work at Western Electric. I never thought I would see this again. Thanks for posting it.
Thank for this! My grandfather worked at Bell Labs/Western Electric and we have a few of these lab grown crystals. I’ve always wondered about them. Thanks again!