Tube related articles by Emilio Ciardiello
Tube related articles by Emilio Ciardiello
– 12AU7: the true history of the first noval tube
– A survey of Italian tube manufacturers
– British radar tubes, part 1 – Gridded power tubes
. British radar tubes, part 1a – ‘silica valves’
– British radar tubes, part 2 – Microwave tubes *** work in progress…
– Heil tubes or Heil oscillators
– Klystron tubes:
- Klystron tubes – A survey of linear and reflex klystrons in the collection.
- Klystron: the ‘Sutton tube’, the first reflex klystron – The development of the reflex klystron through the images of quite ‘unique’ samples.
- CV150 Power klystron and Oboe Mk IIB blind bombing system – Years before the high-power types of Stanford, EMI had hastily designed and built the first high-power pulse klystron.
– Magnetron tubes
- Magnetron tubes – Survey of magnetrons in the collection.
- The development of eight-cavity E.1198 at GEC – The very early laboratory prototype used by Megaw before the Tizard Mission made it possible to rewrite the history of the British cavity magnetron.
- E1189 development, full overview
- The development of early NT98 – A survey of the early types.
- The wartime German way – The collection also includes some unique German pulse magnetrons, whose existence until nowwas not even imagined.
– Selenium rectifiers: life and failures – It is customary today to replace selenium rectifiers in old sets, but most of them was designed for a superior life span.
– Subminiature tubes in computers – subminiature tubes played a significant role in the design of compact and lightweight equipment.
– The Trochotron, Beam Switch Counter– A survey of electron counters and Nixie displays.
– TWT and BWO tubes – A family of microwave amplifiers and oscillators.
– Vibrotron and Ramberg sensors, ***work in progress
New external articles
– Early application of decimetric waves in ship-to-ship communication, by E. Megaw
– Westinghouse tube development
– MM90 – Historic Exhibition Catalogue, Rodney Burman Collection
– MM94 – Historic Exhibition Catalogue, Rodney Burman Collection
External articles
– Anodyne, anode-dynode beam-deflection amplifier, from Electronics, Aug. 1955
– Binary adder tube, from Electronics, Sept. 1955
– Canal-ray tube to investigate the ether, Electronics, June 1938
– Heaters: Effect of filament voltage upon vacuum tube characteristics
– Ignitron applications, GE ETI-108
– Klystron UHF high-power with tantalum cathode by Varian, Electronics Oct. 1951
– Magnetron oscillators, by G. R. Kilgore
– Magnetrons, split-anode: chapter.23 from Very High Frequency Techniques, McGraw-Hill
– The Cavity Magnetron: Not Just a British Invention, by Y. Blanchard, G. Galati and P. van Genderen
– The High-Power Pulsed Magnetron: a Review of Early Developments, by E. Megaw
– The Magnetron as Generator of Centimeter Waves, by Fisk, Hagstrum and Hartmen
– Plasmatron, a controllable gas diode from Electronics
– Platinotron, X-band power amplifier, from Electronics
– Protection of power tubes against flash-over and arcing
– QK329, Raytheon analog multiplier, from Electronics, Feb. 1955
– RCA Electron Tube Design, 1962 (large pdf file, lots of construction details)
– Reliability of Ground Equipment, Henney 1956
– Sylvania: Ceramic mount tubes for automated assembly, Electronics, Aug. 1954
– UHF tubes of small dimensions, RCA 1933
– Transmitters for frequencies above 300 Mc, by Lindenblad, Proc. I.R.E. Sep. 1933
– Tube operation with zero anode power
Manufacturers
– Burroughs – Beam Switching Application Notes, ETM-149
– ELSI / ELTEL, Elettronica Sicula, Italy, by Emilio Ciardiello
– FIVRE, Catalogo tubi trasmittenti 1973
– GE Cermet tubes and MCMs: Performances and Application Notes
– GE Cermet tubes: Reliability Reports
– GE Microwave Circuit Module (MCM) data
– GE Planar tubes, lighthouse and oil can types, bulletin ETX-110
– GE VTM, Voltage Tuned Magnetrons
– Marconi Italiana, Officine Marconi Genova
– Philips Amplification by Secondary Emission, Aug. 1939
– REL – Canada, by Emilio Ciardiello
– Sylvania Catalog of Rocket Tubes
– The ‘B’ gaseous rectifier and Raytheon, by Emilio Ciardiello-
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