About a decade ago I started a strange little journey in my free time that cut a path across electronics manufacturing from over the last century. One morning I decided to find out how the little ...

Our buddy Joel from BBG took a field trip to Electro-Harmonix’s main lab and test facilities, where they design their legendary music effects pedals and maintain the world’s largest vacuum tube ...

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 ...

Raytheon is best known as a major defense contractor, but the company’s roots go far deeper, starting as a major manufacturer of vacuum tubes in the early days of radio. Today, the company is mostly ...

Scientists in a lab in China have developed a remarkable vacuum tube that could help make a game-changer electronic warfare device, according to a report. They developed a miniaturized traveling-wave ...

In the 1800s, when pneumatic tubes shot telegrams and small items all around buildings and sometimes small cities, the future of mass transit seemed clear: we'd be firing people around through these ...

These new cans try to restore some of the warmth and realism that digital compression takes away. Photo: Morpho MFG This post’s headline sounds like a joke, invoking technology used in antique radios, ...