Under the tag: 'Quote of the Week' in the first edition of Electronics Weekly 50 years ago this year, dated September 7th 1960, was this remark from a speech given by Sir George Thomson to the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
"The complicated electronic devices which crowd every physics research laboratory would be impossible without the cheap components of all kinds manufactured originally for radio and now for television", said Sir George, "for this return by industry, I sometimes think we academic scientists are not as grateful as we ought to be."
As valid a statement today as it was 50 years ago.
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