A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends ...

Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer. It is based on the Motorola MC14500 1-bit industrial controller, but since ...

Definitely not in the meme category, though, is this overkill vacuum tube 555 timer. It comes to us via [David Lovett], aka [Usagi Electric], who has lately caught the “hollow state ...

The history of vacuum tubes in synthesizers goes all the way back to 1939: the Hammond Novachord, one of the first polyphonic synths ever commercially manufactured, relied on an array of 163 ...

Frequent Design Idea (DI) contributor, Christopher Paul, runs into a data visualization problem when working on a new ...

SOUTH Korea has kicked off its development of a revolutionary “Hypertube” train which is expected to launch this year. Set to ...

If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...

Following are the different types of vacuum tubes and the elements used to control the flow of current. See vacuum tube. ----- VACUUM TUBES -----Triode Pentode Elements Diode Tetrode Cathode X X ...