Tag: Vacuum Tube
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A photomultiplier tube is one of a few types of vacuum tubes that are still widely used. In essence it is used to detect very small amounts of light. The tube in the pictures above will be used to detect very small light reactions in a scintillator used to detect muons. The tube works by…
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This is Sylvania 702AT/R switch vacuum tube. It is dated November 1944 and listed as U.S Army Signal Corp stock. I have not been able to find much about this specific tube other than it seems to have been used in the transmitter sections of WWII era radars. It appears this was the first TR…