The Selectron was an early form of digital computer memory developed by Jan A. Rajchman and his group at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) under...
14 KB (1,980 words) - 04:56, 31 July 2024
Selectron may refer to one of the following: Selectron (particle), the supersymmetric partner of the electron Selectron tube, an early form of digital...
199 bytes (56 words) - 07:43, 8 November 2018
number of states), were trade named Selectron tubes. At least one device that functioned in the same way as Nixie tubes was patented in the 1930s . There...
22 KB (2,616 words) - 21:31, 29 October 2024
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between...
120 KB (15,367 words) - 03:53, 22 September 2024
Video camera tubes are devices based on the cathode-ray tube that were used in television cameras to capture television images, prior to the introduction...
109 KB (12,464 words) - 16:34, 25 October 2024
Storage tube Cathode ray tube (for an explanation of how analog storage tubes worked) Williams tube and Selectron tube both used the term "storage tube" for...
11 KB (1,530 words) - 09:46, 4 May 2024
designed for Selectron tube memory), the UNIVAC 1103, IBM 701, IBM 702 and the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC). Williams tubes were also used...
14 KB (1,661 words) - 10:28, 18 June 2024
A gas-filled tube, also commonly known as a discharge tube or formerly as a Plücker tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating...
27 KB (3,400 words) - 22:44, 14 October 2024
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a...
266 KB (29,009 words) - 04:59, 2 November 2024
Photomultiplier tubes (photomultipliers or PMTs for short) are extremely sensitive detectors of light in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges...
36 KB (4,464 words) - 17:05, 3 October 2024
A voltage-regulator tube (VR tube) is an electronic component used as a shunt regulator to hold a voltage constant at a predetermined level. Physically...
8 KB (949 words) - 19:31, 26 May 2024
conceived and developed the selectively addressable storage tube, the ill-fated Selectron tube, and the core memory. He was a Fellow of the Institute of...
4 KB (279 words) - 17:42, 8 October 2024
traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced "twit") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced "tweeta") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in...
21 KB (2,487 words) - 19:48, 14 September 2024
tube, which was the first random-access computer memory. The Williams tube was able to store more information than the Selectron tube (the Selectron was...
29 KB (3,284 words) - 18:37, 1 October 2024
Sutton tube was the name given to the first reflex klystron, developed in 1940 by Robert W. Sutton of Signal School group at the Bristol University. The...
14 KB (1,860 words) - 17:29, 4 September 2024
modelling as a hobby. Radio Corporation of America: SB256 – 256-bit Selectron tube, an early form of digital computer memory Cossor: SU25 – EHT rectifier...
329 KB (40,580 words) - 23:52, 20 October 2024
Dekatron (redirect from Decimal counting tube)
generically three-phase gas counting tube or glow-transfer counting tube or cold cathode tube) is a gas-filled decade counting tube. Dekatrons were used in computers...
7 KB (688 words) - 18:04, 4 April 2024
Skitube Alpine Railway (redirect from SkiTube)
ski resort". Selectron Systems AG. Retrieved 11 May 2020. "Intelligence" Railway Gazette International October 1987 page 640 "Ski Tube Opening" Railway...
12 KB (1,135 words) - 13:11, 17 July 2023
Tetrode (redirect from Screen-grid tube)
A tetrode is a vacuum tube (called valve in British English) having four active electrodes. The four electrodes in order from the centre are: a thermionic...
34 KB (4,294 words) - 16:44, 16 October 2024
Klystron (redirect from Klystron tube)
A klystron is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube, invented in 1937 by American electrical engineers Russell and Sigurd Varian, which is used as an amplifier...
27 KB (3,310 words) - 09:10, 21 October 2024
Triode (redirect from Triode vacuum tube)
A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or thermionic valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope:...
31 KB (3,705 words) - 03:43, 20 September 2024
Selectron tube Storage tube Williams tube Electronics portal M. B. Knight (1960). "A new miniature beam deflection tube" (PDF). RCA Electron Tube Division...
8 KB (929 words) - 03:31, 9 February 2023
A magic eye tube or tuning indicator, in technical literature called an electron-ray indicator tube, is a vacuum tube which gives a visual indication...
12 KB (1,518 words) - 20:12, 6 February 2024
Audion (redirect from Audion amplifier tube)
The Audion was an electronic detecting or amplifying vacuum tube invented by American electrical engineer Lee de Forest as a diode in 1906. Improved, it...
24 KB (2,614 words) - 03:10, 31 July 2024
Cavity magnetron (category Vacuum tubes)
The cavity magnetron is a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators. A...
52 KB (6,453 words) - 23:07, 27 October 2024
Nuvistor (category Vacuum tubes)
The nuvistor is a type of vacuum tube announced by RCA in 1959. Nuvistors were made to compete with the then-new bipolar junction transistors, and were...
8 KB (941 words) - 16:16, 21 September 2024
IAS machine (category Vacuum tube computers)
tubes for memory plus one more to monitor the state of a memory tube). The memory was originally designed for about 2,300 RCA Selectron vacuum tubes....
13 KB (1,126 words) - 23:07, 11 August 2024
Electronic symbol (section Vacuum tubes)
mode, P‑channel MOSFET Vacuum tube diode Vacuum tube triode Vacuum tube tetrode (pin letters not part of symbol) Vacuum tube pentode For multiple pole switches...
21 KB (1,554 words) - 06:40, 23 September 2024
Backward-wave oscillator (redirect from Backward wave tube)
backward wave tube, is a vacuum tube that is used to generate microwaves up to the terahertz range. Belonging to the traveling-wave tube family, it is...
18 KB (2,572 words) - 10:30, 23 June 2024