While most VEDs in common use today (traveling wave tubes (TWTs), klystrons, crossed-field amplifiers, magnetrons, gyrotrons and others) were invented in the first half of the 20th century, ongoing, ...

A visit to the primordial vacuum tube computer, Colossus at Bletchley Park, UK, led [Mike] on the path towards designing an entirely new one.

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, you ...

The venerable vacuum tube is due to take retirement. Though solid-state electronics overtook the venerable vacuum tube more than 60 years ago, more than 200,000 Department of Defense devices use ...

How Cherry Audio recreated the sound of the world's first commercial polysynth in software Phase8, Korg’s ‘acoustic synth’, is finally confirmed for release, and it looks and sounds awesome Unlike ...

Beneath the cobblestones lies a network of tubes that sucks trash out of the city with the force of half a million household vacuum cleaners. Residents access the tubes by way of receptacles ...

After World War II came an even bigger vacuum tube: the cathode ray tube that provided the picture for generations of television sets. Today, of course, transistor, chips and wafer-thin flat ...

In today's world, vacuum tubes or radio valves seem as dead as high button shoes and buggy whips, but DARPA sees them as very much the technology of the future. As part of a new program, the ...

Researchers have created a semiconductor-free microelectronic system using a gold nanostructure to improve the conductivity of a vacuum-tube system by 1,000 percent. If they are able to make their ...