A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding ... This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor. Edison's discovery that current can travel ...

But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which ...

[Mr Carlson] serves up another vintage offering, this time in the form of a tube op amp. The K2-W model he acquired enjoyed popularity when it was released as one of the first modular general purp ...

If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...

The most exciting new development in electronics is the transistor, a tiny, simple device that can do the work of most vacuum tubes. Transistors are generally mounted in plastic or metal for easy ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

The transistor was developed only eight years ago by three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories. It amplifies electrical impulses just like the vacuum tube, but is free of the vacuum tube’s ...

Scientists in the US built the first silicon transistor in 1947. Before that, the mechanics of computing had been performed by vacuum tubes, which were slow and bulky. Silicon changed everything.

It proved that transistors could replace bulky vacuum tubes, paving the way for smaller, more energy-efficient devices like the TV8-301. Panasonic TR-005 Orbitel (1970s) – A later development in ...

This scale of growth has resulted from a continuous scaling of transistors and other improvements in the Silicon manufacturing process. The invention of vacuum tubes is what launched the electronics ...