thyratron

I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

David M. Lee - Autobiography 1997

Before the war he designed gas thyratron tubes for use as decimal counters in an electronic calculator, a working model of which was completed before the war.

Oral history interview with Robert E. Mumma 1984

Soon the coils of its five-thousand-ton magnets began to drain their enormous currents from the thyratron converters.

Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

Soon the coils of its five-thousand-ton magnets began to drain their enormous currents from the thyratron converters.

Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

Hmmmm although the microwave video is entertaining, if memory serves, doing that will either drastically shorten the life of the microwave (the thyratron) or cause it not to work at all.

Knowledge is Power 2009

Hmmmm although the microwave video is entertaining, if memory serves, doing that will either drastically shorten the life of the microwave (the thyratron) or cause it not to work at all.

Knowledge is Power 2009

Hmmmm although the microwave video is entertaining, if memory serves, doing that will either drastically shorten the life of the microwave (the thyratron) or cause it not to work at all.

Knowledge is Power 2009

(The electronic counters were designed by C.E. Wynn-Williams, who had been using thyratron tubes in counting circuits at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, since 1932

The Modern History of Computing Copeland, B. Jack 2006