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THE VALVE (AND TRANSISTOR)
TECHIE PAGE

What Home Entertainment
Owes to Intrinsicality
OK, try and ignore the crap title. This two-part article from Mullard contains some interesting details on the production of CRT's and valves at the start of the 1960's.
Power Grid Valves
A fascinating paper presented by Jack McCullough (of Eimac) in 1965. The history of these valves plus a look forward to the future (from 1965's perspective).
Materials and Shapes of
Vacuum Tube Heaters
An article all about the materials and construction of valve heaters originally published in the magazine Electronic Industries magazine in December 1961
Getter Materials An article on the selection of materials for use as getters, originally published in "Electronics" magazine in October 1950.
Microphonics Extracts from some research undertaken by Mullard in 1962 into the effect of valve construction upon sensitivity to microphonics.
Valves at U.H.F. An article written in 1954 on recent developments of UHF valves and describing the Magnetron and Klystron.
Guided Grid Valves A valve development from around 1960 aimed at high frequency operation in TV tuners.
The Nuvistor The nuvistor was a miniature high-frequency valve introduced fairly late in the life of valve technology.
The Manufacture of
Junction Transistors
A Mullard article on the manufacture of junction transistors such as the OC44/45 and OC71 etc you find in many early transistor sets. Its amazing just how labour-intensive the process was. OK, so its not valves but it is valve era.

You can find a lot of similar interesting articles on John Atwood's One Electron website (refer to its Archive section).


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