The tubes were prone to exploding during times of great thermal stress, especially when warming up and shutting down the ...

Engineering is all about choosing the best compromise—both for a SPICE model that provides reasonable fidelity and for the ...

If you said yes to all of the above, then Astell & Kern’s flagship digital audio player — the SP3000T — is about to make your sonic dreams come true.  Analog stalwarts write love letters to the warm, ...

The best wet-dry vacuum cleaner is just what you need if your home has a lot of hard floors that you want to keep spotless. Wet-dry vacs make the whole messy business of mopping your floors a lot ...

Talks resumed on Tuesday 5 November between Aslef and Transport for London (TfL) over calls for a four-day working week for Tube drivers. On Friday, the RMT union called off its strike following ...

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Rich Scherr is a seasoned journalist and editor who has traveled across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and spent more than a decade reviewing hotel room.

Armed with a cheap high voltage DC power supply he acquired from an online auction house, he started to power up his x-ray vacuum tube. A smaller power supply energizes the cathode and forms an ...

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The museum was recently gifted an enormous Nixie tube created by Dalibor Farný, a B-grade (well, faulty) unit that could not be used in any of their commissioned works but was perfectly fine for ...