| Museums & Events featuring vintage electronics |
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| Amberley Museum
UK |
UK Industrial Museum near London. Excellent range of
radio, communication and electrical exhibits, incorporates SEEBOARD museum of electricity.
Open March-October. Well worth a special trip from the London area if you're into
old technology. |
| Cambridge Museum
of Technology UK |
Steam & industrial museum, with a room of
electrical exhibits, including a working Mercury Arc Rectifier |
| Museum of submarine
telegraphy UK |
Excellent site covering early undersea comms
technology. |
| Whipple
museum of the history of Science UK |
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| National Vintage
Communications Fair |
Annual event featuring vintage radio, TV,
communications, valves etc. at the NEC Birmingham |
| Deutsches
Museum and Siemens
Museum, Munich. |
The huge Deutsches Museum in Munich has a wide range of
electric stuff, and daily high-voltage demos . When in Munich,
also don't miss the Siemens Company museum , with a wide range of historical electric
stuff, and entry is free! |
| Electrokinetica |
UK based electrical museum |
| Jeff Behary's
Electrotherapy Museum (online) |
Lots of pics of Geissler & Crookes tubes, plus
highly dubious 'medical' devices! |
| Obsolete
computer museum (Online) |
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| John Jenkins' Vintage
radio & scientific apparatus |
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| Earlytelevision.org |
Museum of early TV technoloy - I especially like the eidophor - a highly
ingenious large-screen TV projection system used from the 50s to the 80s to show live
events in cinemas. More info on it here |
| Valve Manufacturers, suppliers and data |
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| PV
Scientific |
reproduction Geissler & discharge tubes, &
other scientific stuff. |
| Crowthorne Tubes |
UK valve supplier |
| Ask Jan First |
German Valve supplier |
| Vacuum Tubes Inc |
US Valve supplier - wide range of types |
| Bull
Electrical |
UK supplier listing some old valves |
| Raedek |
UK supplier of modern and obsolete high-power valves,
thyratrons etc. |
| Micronetics |
Valve supplier |
| Halfin |
Valve supplier, with online purchasing |
| Electron Tubes for
Industry |
Valve supplier |
| Triton Electron Technology |
Manufacturer of thyratrons, klystrons and other power
products |
| Sources and data for Nixie Tubes |
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| Valve & Tube supplies |
UK based source of vintage and repro valves. |
| Valve
data archive |
Including thyratrons, x-ray tubes and radiation
detector tubes. |
| Lots
more data on valves, thyratrons etc. at Tesla archive |
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| Frank's Electron Tube Pages
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Online datasheets and partnumber cross-reference data. |
| http://frank.nostalgiaair.org/ |
Lots of valve/tube data sheets, mostly European types. |
| Greenstone |
Supplier of valves for industry, broadcast etc. |
| Valve collections etc. |
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| Hans-Thomas Schmidt's
valve collection |
In German - try http://babelfish.altavista.com to translate.
Lots lof links to other valve sites worldwide. |
| tubecollection.de |
Huge German collection, including many very rare and
antique types - this must be one of the biggest valve collections anywhere! |
| National Valve
Museum |
Huge UK collection, indexed by number and function |
| Kilokat's Light Site |
Antique & unusual light bulbs |
| Jeremy Harmer's valve
collection |
UK based collector with some unusual stuff |
| E.Tedeschi |
Lots of vintage stuff, including Marconi, Sinclair,
Transistor Radios and tons of links |
| Tubepeadia |
Lots of unusual valves & CRTs.Worth trekking all
the way through for some real gems! |
| Tubedata |
Swedish site with lots of antique valves, nixies,
CRTs, magic eye tubes and loads more. |
| Nostalgia
Down Under |
Info on valves & other interesting vintage stuff |
| Ominous-valve.com |
"The Ominous Valve is the Faberge egg of the
New Millennium. The present belongs to the tired and passe. The future belongs to us.
" 'Nuff said! |
| Tube Collectors
Association |
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| Bill's vintage tube
site |
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| Reverse Time page |
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Nixie
collectors discussion group |
Popular group for discussing everything nixie - lots of
designs and data in the files area. |
| http://www.vintage-technology.info/ |
Interesting site covering various aspects of vintage
technology |
| British Vintage Wireless
Society |
UK society dedicated to the preservation of vintage TV,
wireless & retated stuff. |
| World
of wireless |
Radio history |
| Computing history
archives |
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| rejuvination.com |
Reproduction Edison and Victorian light bulbs |
| History of the
E1T counter tube |
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