Favorite electron tube circuit?

[root]

I was looking through an old copy of Seely's book. My favorite tube
(on the basis of clever design) was the Phantastron. Really slick.

[John Keiser]

On 6/16/2020 6:19 AM, root wrote:
> I was looking through an old copy of Seely's book. My favorite tube
> (on the basis of clever design) was the Phantastron. Really slick.
>

Is this what you want?

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9A1210D3901B37ED01DC4F2246A395D0

[jjhu...@gmail.com]

would love to find a pdf of the 2nd ed.
Thanks
John

[Ron D.]

One washer had a brush where it ran the water through into the wash tub. It seemed to work well.

[Jon Elson]

root wrote:

> I was looking through an old copy of Seely's book. My favorite tube
> (on the basis of clever design) was the Phantastron. Really slick.

Brilliant use of a tube designed for a different purpose. They were used as
the ramp generator for horizontal sweep in oscilloscopes. Likely used in
radars as well.

Jon

[jjhu...@gmail.com]

Yes it was. For a fascinating and informative reading of foundational radar technology, one might want to look at the books that came out of the MIT Rad Lab. PDFs can be found here:
https://www.febo.com/pages/docs/RadLab/

Being a long time student of control theory, I looked at vol 25, Theory of Servomechanisms. The treatment of the theory is clear and complete and I was astounded to realize that my first control theory text book (affectionately
paraphrased to "Dazzled and Hopeless" - I cant remember the actually spelling of the authors last names), contained almost a verbatim copy of the servomechanism volume. ahhh, the good times...


John

[root]

jjhu...@gmail.com <jjhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> For a fascinating and informative reading of foundational radar technology, one might want to look at the books that came out of the MIT Rad Lab. PDFs can be found here:

> https://www.febo.com/pages/docs/RadLab/

Wow, thanks for the link.
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