A 4-pin plastic base with glass T-shaped envelope. Radiation symbol stamped on envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Cold cathode tube made by Western Electric for use in modern [about 1962] telephone ...

Vancouver Island artist Kyle Miller has found a new use for an old technology, using Soviet-era , cold cathode Nixie tubes to build displays for handmade, steampunk clocks. "The biggest appeal of a ...

The transistor revolutionized the world and made the abundant computing we now rely on a possibility, but before the transistor, there was the vacuum tube. Large, hot, power hungry, and prone to ...