Saturday, October 17, 2026

A museum for vacuum tubes

There is a museum for almost everything! 😊

"[vacuum tubes] ... Invented in the early 20th century, vacuum tubes were the foundation of electronics. They made radio, television, long-distance telephone, radar, home audio, and even the earliest computers possible before being largely replaced by semiconductor devices late in the century. ...

And that first box of tubes seeded a lifelong collection that now numbers over 6,000. He recently donated and curated a permanent exhibit of nearly 300 tubes to MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), ..."

Vacuum Tubes: A Love Story | alum.mit.edu








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