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Transistor Size (1/4” Diameter X 1/2”) Date Code 4-53 (1953 Week 4) on Back Cardboard Package	WESTERN ELECTRIC 2N24 TYPE Germanium Point Contact Transistor USAGE Low Power Low Frequency Oscillator (3 mc) DATE INTRODUCED 1953 CASE STYLES Metal Cartridge AVAILABILITY Rare (Limited Production)
HISTORIC NOTES The 2N24 is the commercialized version of the 1768 developmental point contact transistor. It uses the cartridge metal case style common to early Bell Labs and Western Electric point contact transistors. Volume production of these units started in late 1952/early 1953. Western Electric transistors were typically available only to the military and to the equipment manufacturing divisions of Western Electric.
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