A GIF circulating on the Internet of a data cable being attached to a 1945 computer has been followed up with detailed information about the machine by a Twitter account. It explains what this ...

Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago. Yet there have been some lingering vacuum tube-based products in production. The last major vacuum tube retirement was the long-lasting ...

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 ...

Millimeter wave vacuum tubes, including ones like the traveling wave tube (TWT) depicted here, amplify signals by exchanging kinetic energy in the electron beam (shown as a blue line) with ...

A travelling wave tube shows how far vacuum electronics has come. Mention vacuum tubes and some people (those old enough and/or historically minded) might think of ENIAC, the first electronic digital ...

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, ...

1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born. Although the Supreme ...

Nothingness might not sound very useful. In fact, the opposite is the case because nothingness – in the form of a vacuum – has played a major role in the history of electronics. Until the invention of ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 16th, 1904, 110 years ago today . . . the birthday of an invention heard 'round the world. For that was the day the British inventor John ...

Solid-state technology all but obliterated the vacuum tube market in the early 1960s. So why are tubes still popular with audiophiles and musicians? Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has ...