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The First Miniature Pneumatic Application

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The first need for miniature pneumatics was for the automation of testing RF coils. Leonard Clippard searched for the right components...  they didn't exist.  So he invented a line of miniature cylinders, fittings and valves and pioneered miniature pneumatics as we know them today.

 

The first RF coil automated tester using miniature pneumatics.