Numerik
Numerik displays use edge-lit curved plastic plates to display symbols such as the digits 0 to 9.
They feature prominently in the 1964 Bond movie, Goldfinger, as the 3-digit countdown display in the nuclear bomb that ultimately stops to display "007".
GR products using Numerik displays
- 1123-A Digital Synchronometer
- 1150-A 300 kHz, 5-digit frequency counter, 1963
- 1150-B 400 kHz, 5-digit frequency counter, 1965
- 1153-A 10 MHz, 5-digit frequency counter, 1965
- 1680-A Automatic capacitance bridge
- ...?
Links
- IND-0300
- IND-1801
- Experimenter April 1962 describing Numerik Display
- GB Patent 847,972 filed 22 Jan 1958
- KGM Electronics IND-1803 Numerik Indicator (General Radio) @ industrialalchemy.org
- KGM edge-lit display "Numerik Indicator" model IND-0300 by 50sTransistorRadios @ YouTube (shows partial disassembly)