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, ...

Volume unit (VU) meters are cool — it’s an undeniable fact. For some reason, humans just dig lights that flash along with sounds. You can build a VU meter using LEDs, or bulbs if you’re trapped in ...

The circuit was designed to create a power amplifier circuit that will utilize E80CC and EL34 vacuum tubes for better results while providing 35 Watts of power. E80CC – a special quality double triode ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERGEN, Norway — The medieval heart of this 955-year-old city is home to one of the most high-tech waste management systems in the world. Beneath the cobblestones lies a network of tubes that sucks ...

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, ...

Virgin Hyperloop One is testing a system that would put passengers in pods hurtling through vacuum tubes. Other companies are moving ahead with similar plans. The tube used for unmanned testing by ...

At the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen, scientists are exploring the phenomena of compressible flow mechanics in Europe’s largest and ...