The computing revolution began in 1944 with Colossus. See how technology transformed from room-sized machines to smart ...

A GIF circulating on the Internet of a data cable being attached to a 1945 computer has been followed up with detailed information about the machine by a Twitter account. It explains what this ...

1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born. Although the Supreme ...

While most VEDs in common use today (traveling wave tubes (TWTs), klystrons, crossed-field amplifiers, magnetrons, gyrotrons and others) were invented in the first half of the 20th century, ongoing, ...

Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago. Yet there have been some lingering vacuum tube-based products in production. Vacuum tubes disappeared from electronic products years ago.

The venerable vacuum tube is due to take retirement. Though solid-state electronics overtook the venerable vacuum tube more than 60 years ago, more than 200,000 Department of Defense devices use ...

Talking about vacuum tubes—or “vacuum electron devices” (VEDs), as their proponents prefer to call them—may seem like you are discussing ancient history. After all, who even considers VEDs when ...

Vacuum tube amplifiers just won’t go away. I am speaking more of audio vacuum tube amps than I am of microwave amps like magnetrons, klystrons, TWTs and the like. Most other audio gear is solid state ...

There’s a new device in the works over at DARPA, the agency known for pushing the technological envelope with mind-controlled prosthetics and drone-launching submarines. This latest innovation? The ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 16th, 1904, 110 years ago today . . . the birthday of an invention heard 'round the world. For that was the day the British inventor John ...