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 Loewe multi- valve The first ever integrated
circuit, from 1926! |
 The BIG stuff Serious glass. |
 High-frequency valves plus klystrons &
magnetrons. |
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 Miniature valves |
 Vintage valves |
 Mercury Arc Rectifiers How you made DC before
silicon. |
 Lamps etc. Antique / unusual bulbs & arc
tubes.. |
 Neon lamps and neon strobe tubes. |
 Geissler tubes pretty discharge tubes from before
the days of neon. |
 Assorted glass components Weston cells,
crystals, geiger tubes, vacuum guage. |
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 Nixie
tubes, dekatrons & counting tubes Digital glass stuff. |
    Nixie Clock project
Full construction details including PCB artwork. |
Industrial Valve specs and data sheets Thyratrons, Ignitrons, cold-cathode tubes, power valves etc | Valve & Vintage electronic Links |
Warning! Tesla coils and their ancillary equipment are VERY VERY dangerous and you should not even THINK about trying to make one unless you really understand the dangers of high-voltage electrical systems.
 Tesla coil pictures Trying
not to burn down my garage. |
 Zapping CD's What to do
with that Spice Girls CD you got for Xmas. |
 Lightbulb plasma globe Storm in a bulb. |
 Laptop Hell Remember
those 'portable' PC's with plasma displays? |
 Fun with Argon Inert
gas getting slightly more ert. |
 Zapping Electronic stuff Chip frying. |
 High voltage demo at
the Deutsches Museum, Munich. |
 UK Teslathon Corby '98 First UK teslathon. |
| UK Teslathon Corby '99 |
UK Teslathon Cambridge '99 With AVI's of coils and exploding stuff |
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 Jacob's Ladders High-voltage
flames |
 Tesla Coil Motor
Electric 'wheel of fire' effects. |
 Fun with Plasma in a
xenon flash tube |
Info on high-power pulse switching devices trigatrons, thyratrons and various other -trons. | Tesla coil and high-voltage links |
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 CD Jukebox 1000 CD's
at the press of a button. |
 My Home AV system So complicated I had
to draw myself a diagram! |
 Neodymium magnets Turn a
hard disk into a maglev device. |
 Mystery corner Odd
components - can you figure them out ? New item 02/ 2000 |
 Old calculator collection. |
 Ball-bearing motor Odd non- magnetic motor. |
 How to make really
good homebrew PCBs |
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| Science & miscellaneous links |
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