TRANSISTOR TWIN: The cross-section drawing [right] from the French magazine Toute la Radio depicts the inside of a commercial Westinghouse transistron [above center]. In the drawing, the two metal points (chercheurs) contact the surface of a germanium sliver (cristal). A technician adjusted the positions of the two contacts to give the proper electrical characteristics while viewing them through a window (fenêtre). The internal structure is similar to Bell Labs' first prototype point-contact transistor [far right], produced in 1948.