Restoring a vintage radio receiver has the potential to be a fun weekend project, but it pays to know what you’re up against. Especially in the case of vacuum tube electronics, running down ...

In this post we will show you how to restore any vacuum tube radio. You will learn basic repair/restoration procedures from a different era when it was actually worth repairing consumer electronics.

Getting that single directional flow was critical for radio sets which needed to turn alternating current into direct current. The vacuum tube didn't reach its full maturity until Lee De Forest ...

The film discusses the crucial role of vacuum tubes in radio broadcasting, detailing the various jobs involved in the industry, from production and scriptwriting to technical maintenance and ...

To the shipboard radio operators, it was a miracle -- a ... inventor of a type of vacuum tube called a triode, aired programs from New York's Metropolitan Opera House. But it was not until 1916 ...

He invented the three-electrode vacuum tube without understanding how it worked. His grid-triode was no great success as a detector, but it did eventually make modern radio and electronics possible ...