There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956, is now booting, ...
For most electrical engineers, the vacuum tube or, more formally, the vacuum electron device (VED), is a quaint curiosity and artifact of the past, and with good reason: The world of solid-state ...
Makers, developers and hobbyists looking for an easy way to power Nixon tubes, vintage vacuum tubes and more may be interested in a new piece of hardware developed by Aiden Fang in the form of the ...
Anyone looking to upgrade their headphones might be interested in the new écoute vacuum tube headphones specifically created to compensate for the deficiencies of digital listening. Launched via ...
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Vacuum Tubes (1943)

The video explains the operation of the vacuum tube, specifically the triode, which is essential in modern communication devices like radios and telephones. It describes how a tungsten filament emits ...
The Hyperloop sounds like science fiction, Elon Musk's pipe dream: leapfrog high speed rail and go right to packing us into capsules that fling us across the country in hours using what are, ...
AT a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on December 22, 1880, I gave a very brief preliminary account of some experiments that I have been making, along with Sir William Thomson, with ...
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the big thing these days, and why not? A single computer can get rid of a room full of boat anchors, and give you better signal discrimination than all but the best kit ...