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 ...

And the way vacuum tubes served most Americans for many years was inside their radios. The radio back then was frequently like a piece of furniture, in the center of the room, and filled with ...

For most of us, vacuum tubes haven’t appeared in any of our schematics or BOMs in — well, ever. Once mass-manufacturing made reliable transistors cheap enough for hobbyists, vacuum tube… ...

Why you should ditch your Bluetooth speaker for the smooth, sweet and surprisingly affordable sound of a vacuum-tube amplifier.

We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machin… ...

The transistor revolutionized the world and made the abundant computing we now rely on a possibility, but before the transistor, there was the vacuum tube. Large, hot, power hungry, and prone to ...

Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.

January 22, 2023 ‘It Sounds Human’: Audiophiles Are Embracing the Lush Sounds of Old-School Tube Amps Once nearly obsolete, the classic devices still can’t be beat for their natural sound.

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is an airless frictionless, maglev-like form of transport which, its designers say, is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or aeroplanes.

The EDTA tubes segment is showcasing the promising growth rate during the forecast period in the vacuum blood collection tube market. The usual anticoagulant found in blood collection tubes is EDTA.

All aboard - Canada could be getting a 1,000km per hour ‘vacuum tube’ train. The dizzyingly fast ‘FluxJet’ proposal was unveiled last month by Canadian startup Transpod. If the new design ...

Now Écoute has come up with a very unusual way to include tube amplification in your audio experience – it's stuck a Korg Nutube 6P1 tube in a pair of luxury headphones.