QUARTZ CRYSTALS
SUPPLY IN UGANDA
COMMERCIAL TESTS
(British Official Wireless.)
Reed. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, June 16. The discovery within the British Empire of quartz crystals, of sufficiently line quality to be used for maintaining! the frequency of radio transmitters, is reported by the Imperial Institute. The new source of supply is in Uganda in a district where alluvial gold is being washed. Commercial tests are stated to have proved satisfactory. Hitherto Brazil and Madagascar have been the two chief sources of these crystals. Besides being used in normal radio transmission, quartz crystals are in demand for apparatus required in depthsounding at sea.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19044, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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