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Power Vacuum Tubes Handbook, Second Edition
Jerry C. Whitaker
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| Excerpt - page 170: "... voltage. The table indicates the recommended location of a suitable relay that should act to remove the prin- ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Vacuum Science and Technology: Pioneers of the 20th Century (AVS Classics in Vacuum Science and Technology)
Paul A. Redhead
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| Excerpt - page 64: "... that, due to the presence of a reservoir forming a vacuum regulator between these pumps and the mechan- ical pump, the latter functioned only intermittently under the action of a manometric relay. This practice seems to have been forgotten since. Among the ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects.
Neil A. Downie
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive 19 Ed: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot
John Muir, Tosh Gregg, and Peter Aschwanden
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| Excerpt - page 322: "... the intake air distributor. Connect the wire to the main relay and the vacuum hose from the intake air distributor to the pressure sensor. ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
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| Excerpt - page 67: "... the figure demonstrates, there were actually four different paradigms- electromechanical, relays, vacuum tubes, and discrete transistors-that showed exponential growth in the price-performance ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
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| Excerpt - page 243: "... headed by Aiken taught the first classes in computer science. Relays weren't perfect devices for constructing ... for the relay is the vacuum tube, which was developed by John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) and ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage)
Edward Tenner
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| Excerpt - page 351: "... many times faster than the room- and building-size arrays of relays and vacuum tubes of the industry's pioneer days. Steel is lighter and ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Pattern on the Stone (Science Masters)
Daniel Hillis
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| Excerpt - page 107: "... early 1950s, when computers were being developed, the switching elements (relays and vacuum tubes) were expensive but relatively fast. The memory elements (mercury ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1
Isaac Asimov
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| Excerpt - page 521: "... and expensive is that it has to be full of relays and vacuum tubes just so that microscopic electric currents can be controlled ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Peter Galison
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| Excerpt - page 251: "... Paul (an apprentice machine technician), Einstein bandied about ideas for relays, vacuum pumps, electrometers, voltmeters, alternating cur- ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Principles of Avionics, Third Edition
Albert Helfrick
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| Excerpt - page 243: "... fixed value capacitors and switching them in parallel with a relay, as shown in Fig. 6.10. ... prevent breakdown, the relays are vacuum-sealed. Ceramic capacitors, which do not use ambient air as a ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Camaro Owner's Hp1301
Keystone Automotive - Drop Ship
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| Excerpt - page 97: "... installing new hoses, start at a reliable source of manifold vacuum and work forward. Install filter (arrow) near vacuum source then install tee. One hose goes to dash-mounted headlamp switch; other goes to relay on vacuum reservoir. 19. Vacuum relay on 1968-69 RS has ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, and Systems, 2nd Edition
Mikell P. Groover
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| Excerpt - page 787: "... electronic switching systems that were more reliable than the electromechanical relays and vacuum tubes used at that time. In February 1959, I. Kilby ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers/Hilary Putnam, Vol 2)
Hilary Putnam
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| Excerpt - page 414: "... agents to be realized as automata built out of flip-flops, relays, vacuum tubes, and so forth. But even in this last case ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology
J. Storrs Hall
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| Excerpt - page 101: "... shafts and gears, as in Babbage's design, followed by electromagnetic relays, vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, integrated circuits, and a series of order-of-magnitude ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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| Excerpt - page 60: "... sort that could be built with a set of electromechanical relays or vacuum tubes. And that, if nothing else, meant that von Neumann ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Data Conversion Handbook (Analog Devices)
Engineering Staff Analog Devices Inc.
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| Excerpt - page 149: "... SWITCHES ANALOG R OUTPUT R CIRCA 1920 R SWITCHES WERE RELAYS OR VACUUM TUBES R Figure 3.4: Simplest Voltage-Output Thermometer DAC: The Kelvin ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries : All the Milestones in Ingenuity From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven
Rodney Carlisle and Scientific American
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| Excerpt - page 413: "... a wide variety of electromechanical machines were developed that used relays, vacuum tubes, and electrical wiring to accomplish mathematical computations. Since the ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
Howard Rheingold
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| Excerpt - page 16: "... Just as the hardware basis for computing has evolved from relays to vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits, the programs have evolved, ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Reliable Computer Systems: Design and Evaluation
Daniel P. Siewiorek and Robert S. Swarz
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| Excerpt - Front Matter: "... age. The earliest computers were constructed of components such as relays and vacuum tubes that would fail to operate correctly as often as ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Introduction To Programming with Visual Basic .net
Gary J. Bronson and David Rosenthal
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| Excerpt - page 40: "... computers of the 1950s, all hardware units were built using relays and vacuum tubes. The resulting computers were extremely large pieces of equipment, ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture
William L. Benzon
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| Excerpt - page 53: "... represented and realized by various kinds of devices, including "electromechanical relays, vacuum tubes, crystal diodes, ferromagnetic cores, and transistors." Regardless of how ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
James Bamford
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| Excerpt - page 579: "... for codebreaking. Known as Rapid Analytical Machines (RAMs), they employed vacuum tubes, relays, high-speed electronic circuits, and photoelectrical principles. They were ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books)
George B. Dyson
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| Excerpt - page 39: "... timing diagrams that brought mechanical logic into the age of relays, vacuum tubes, transistors, microprocessors, and beyond. Computers have been paying their ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The Internet Revolution: The Not-for-Dummies Guide to the History, Technology, and Use of the Internet
J. R. Okin
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| Excerpt - page 28: "... that no, or minimal, heat is given off.) Unlike a vacuum tube, the transistor produced no ... like the migration from electromechanical relays to vacuum tubes to transistors, this evolution in the technology ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)
John von Neumann
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| Excerpt - page 7: "... the course of the development up to now, elec- tromechanical relays, vacuum tubes, crystal diodes, 7 ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Beginning Programming for Dummies
Wally Wang and Wallace Wang
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| Excerpt - page 55: "... as a bug. In the early days, computers used mechanical relays and vacuum tubes instead of circuit boards and microprocessors. One day, the ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
Andy Kessler
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| Excerpt - page 122: "... research arm of AT&T and Western Electric, was playing with relays and vacuum tubes to do switching. All of a sudden, electronic computing ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an Eloquent ... Collection From More Than 90 of This Centu
Timothy Ferris
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| Excerpt - page 481: "... In the course of the development up to now, electromechanical relays, vacuum tubes, crystal diodes, ferromagnetic cores, and transistors have been successively ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook, Vol 1 : Machining
Tom Drozda
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| Excerpt - page 336: "... state Pertaining to an electrical circuit having no moving parts, relays, vacuum tubes, or gaseous tube components. source language A computer input ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Technician's Guide to Industrial Electronics: How to Troubleshoot and Repair Automated Equipment
Robert Carrow
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| Excerpt - page 70: "... and switches continue to develop faster than ever. Analytical engine Relays Vacuum tubes A 4-1 The evolution of the suritch Transistors 7 ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
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| Excerpt - page 27: "... fifth paradigm since the inception of computation-after mechanical, electromechanical (i.e., relay based), vacuum tube, and discrete transistor technology-to provide accelerating returns to computation. ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Before the Computer
James W. Cortada
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| Excerpt - page 118: "... that were not widely applied until the 1940s and 1950s (relays, vacuum tubes) or were so limited in demand that the economic ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology
George Gilder
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| Excerpt - page 177: "... system for economizing on the use of expensive and unreliable relays, vacuum tubes, and other switches. Mead's experience in the microcosm , ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Poem a Day, Vol. 2
Laurie Sheck
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| Excerpt - page 266: "... seed of the computer is to be found, the ticking relays, the vacuum tubes of the future. With charming innocence this algebra teaches ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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Reliability of Computer Systems and Networks: Fault Tolerance, Analysis, and Design
Martin L. Shooman
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| Excerpt - page 146: "... by the maintenance problems of the early computers related to relay and vacuum tube failures. A study of the Univac computer that was ..." | | See more references to Relays, Vacuum in this book. |
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