“You should have used a 555” has become a bit of a meme around these parts lately, and for good reason. There seems to be little that these ubiquitous chips can’t be used for, and in a world where ...

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 agency is ...

Raytheon is best known as a major defense contractor, but the company’s roots go far deeper, starting as a major manufacturer of vacuum tubes in the early days of radio. Today, the company is mostly ...

When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers.

Todd Sharp is surrounded by a mountain of guitar amps. But he’s quick to say some of them are better than others. “That’s kind of my motto here: Life is too short to play shitty amps,” he said with a ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second in our on-going What It’s Worth series that keeps you up to date on what’s hot in Antique Technology. For Part 1, click here ...

Vacuum tubeIs an electronic component that performs signal amplification, detection, rectification, etc. with an electrode enclosed in a glass or metal tube whose inside is evacuated. Until a ...

On this 60 th anniversary of the first issue of EDN, we look back to 1956 when the vacuum tube was at its maturity and transistors were about to begin their domination. The vacuum tube features 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 ...