Sentences with phrase «vacuum tube»

It would use vacuum tubes to suck pods containing passengers at speeds of up to 600 mph.
The new invention was not as good as vacuum tubes, the established technology at the time.
The electronics industry during those times was dominated by fragile, power hungry and bulky vacuum tube technology.
The balcony rail is a solar vacuum tube to heat water.
But predicting exactly what synthetic biology will enable even 10 years hence is like trying to predict cell phones when vacuum tubes were invented.
Do you need time for Three vacuum tube receivers and matching speakers, dating from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
They had not been able to sell vacuum tube - based products because they couldn't service them in the aftermarket.
Inside the LIGO interferometers are vacuum tubes in which a laser beam is split into two beams.
As Chamberlain's address blared from the hotel's massive radio, 6 - year - old Rainer stared in fascination at the glowing array of vacuum tubes inside the cabinet.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has championed self - driving cars, solar - and battery - powered homes and businesses, humans colonizing Mars, and long - distance trains zooming through vacuum tubes at 600 MPH.
But given the long - touted potential benefits of carbon nanotubes over silicon, it's a step that could spark a major revolution in computing, akin to the switch from vacuum tubes to silicon around 50 years ago.
A haunted hotel, an abandoned circus, a burnt - out pillow factory, a dead body pixelating under the bridge, toilets that run on vacuum tubes... you've never visited a place like this before.
One of the world's first commercial computers, the Bendix G - 15, went on sale in 1956 for $ 49,000; it computed with vacuum tubes rather than transistors.
Blood samples were collected into vacuum tubes without anticoagulant, left for 1 h at room temperature, and then centrifuged for 15 min at 1500 × g at 20 °C.
You get two excellent HEPA filters, a 14 - foot cable, a soft long vacuum tube, several useful cleaning attachments, and even a carrying bag for ease of storage.
Thanks to the amplifying power of the newly invented vacuum tubes, hams started sending audio everywhere.
Musk is seeking to revolutionize transportation by sending passengers and cargo packed into pods through an intercity system of giant vacuum tubes known as the «hyperloop.»
He says resisting the rise of solar energy is akin to if computer manufacturers kept using vacuum tube switches instead of upgrading to semiconductor transistors.
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When the industry made advances in production techniques — such as vacuum tubing systems to gather sap and reverse osmosis processes which reduced the energy and time required to concentrate it — Quebec's syrup production capacity rose dramatically, especially during the 1980s and 1990s.
«As a result we could diagnose troubles almost down to the individual vacuum tube
Vacuum tubes suck away the sawdust.
While testing a new vacuum tube that drives a radar set known as a magnetron, he discovered that a chocolate bar he had in his pocket melted.
The rPod is also able to run outside of the hyperloop vacuum tube, although it would run at a lower speed, closer to a high - speed vehicle, rather than the superfast speeds capable within the controlled environment of a tube.
SpaceX's second Hyperloop Pod Competition ended last weekend and WARR team won with a top speed of 201 mph (324 km / h) achieved in 0.8 mile in SpaceX's 1 - mile long near vacuum tube.
Of course, the biggest question will be how to win over city and county governments to allow further construction of such a structure and which startup will prevail in the bid to build our human vacuum tube of the future.
The hams — a term coined as a slur by professional telegraph operators — «were sending homework and football scores and news in Morse code, and then they went to World War I and found out about vacuum tubes
Roughly 50 kilometers east of Baton Rouge, La., lasers ricochet off mirrors that dangle at the ends of a 4 - kilometer - long, L - shaped vacuum tube.
l Vacuum tubes: The US army's Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), which contained more than 17,000 tubes, became the first fully electronic general - purpose computer in 1946.
It took just a few decades for computers to evolve from room - size vacuum tube — based machines that cost as much as a house to cheap chip - powered desktop models with vastly more processing power.
«It replaces a technology much like vacuum tubes that has been used for decades to precisely detect small amounts of light.
Because the company that became Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American consumer electronics industry was committed to churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products.
These include its single undivided vacuum tube, which takes a week to re-evacuate every time repairs are made.
And because transistors didn't exist that could amplify a signal to cover such vast distances at the necessary frequencies, the team employed a type of vacuum tube called a traveling wave tube, which used high - voltage electrons to increase the power of electronic signal waves.
They are now waiting for a new generation of giant interferometers that measure the time it takes a laser beam to travel through vacuum tubes several kilometres long.
Like Spotlight, the Oscar - winning picture from 2015 about the The Boston Globe's exposé of a Catholic Church sex - abuse scandal, The Post captures not only the excitement of a paper on the trail of a big story — «My God, the fun,» Bradlee enthuses — but also evokes a bygone era of typewriters, hot metal and those strange vacuum tubes that used to whizz our carefully sub-edited copy down to the composing room.
Without realizing what it would later be called, Tesla invented the X-ray-generating vacuum tube.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is recalling over 120,000 compact sedans to address vacuum tube assemblies that could fail and lead to brake failure.
«I thought, «O.K., I can stop worrying so much and being mad about them letting people in too early,»» Mr. Wheeler said recently over coffee at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, where he has just opened his first solo New York gallery show at the age of 72, remaking a cavernous interior into a kind of immaculate white vacuum tube — the city's first infinity environment.
If it overloads it fizzles out like an old - style vacuum tube.
According to the company, because of its highly efficient design using double - walled vacuum tube technology and mirror - finish compound - parabolic reflectors, it only takes between 10 - 30 minutes to cook a meal in the Go solar cooker, as it can harvest an estimated 80 % of the solar radiation hitting the unit.
Short - term development can take care of itself because it has immediate economic rewards, but can not substitute for serious long term applied research (as an historic example, development of semiconductors was long term applied research while improving vacuum tubes was short - term development).
The sun heats through vacuum tube collectors in the cornices the water for heating.
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