Miniature yet high sensitive photoconductive cells have been developed by using single crystals of CdS. Description is given of the manufacturing process of the cell and its characteristics concerning dark current, photocurrent, spectral sensitivity, time constant and others, and also of several industrial appliances such as apparatus for measuring the intensity distribution of trans-mitted light, micro-photometer for photo-plates, sensitive relays for photometer, automatic weight selector and automatic temperature controller.