More than one of our readers suggested we highlight this beautifully-shot process documentary about the laborious and precise manufacturing of piezoelectric quartz crystals in the early 1940s.

Quartz crystal outcroppings can be found all over ... Water is added to the vessel along with a small amount of mineralizer — either sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate. The mineralizer ...

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