Published by Philips in 1965 documentation, the sensor for this circuit is a common LDR. The transistors are general-purpose types from the time, only TR3 is a power type according to the load.
Today we have more compact solutions. This is from a Radio Electronics magazine from October 1990....
This filter was found in Texas Instruments documentation from the 1980s. The circuit uses a common...
16 commercial test circuit for tubes and transistors appeared in Radio Electronics magazine in...