I was looking through an old copy of Seely's book. My favorite tube (on the basis of clever design) was the Phantastron. Really slick.
Favorite electron tube circuit?
Jun 16, 2020
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would love to find a pdf of the 2nd ed. Thanks John
One washer had a brush where it ran the water through into the wash tub. It seemed to work well.
Brilliant use of a tube designed for a different purpose. They were used as the ramp generator for horizontal sweep in oscilloscopes. Likely used in radars as well.
Jon
Yes it was. For a fascinating and informative reading of foundational radar technology, one might want to look at the books that came out of the MIT Rad Lab. PDFs can be found here:
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Being a long time student of control theory, I looked at vol 25, Theory of Servomechanisms. The treatment of the theory is clear and complete and I was astounded to realize that my first control theory text book (affectionately paraphrased to "Dazzled and Hopeless" - I cant remember the actually spelling of the authors last names), contained almost a verbatim copy of the servomechanism volume. ahhh, the good times...
John
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