Interesting old technical books online
There is a book by General Electric covering applications of neon lamps & similar areas here (12MB Zip)
1964 Philips Gas-Discharge Tubes book
Many thanks to Sture Nystrom for scanning this very comprehensive book on all aspects of
gas-discharge tubes.
| Content | File (right-click and do "Save target as..." to save) |
| Contents list and index | Contents.pdf (800K) |
| Chapter 1 - Physical Principles : The Gas (types,pressures), Electronic Emission, Ignition and extinction, The Discharge plasma, Types of discharges | ch1.pdf (3.5MB) (Incudes contents list) |
| Chapter 2 - Construction : The gas filling, The cathode, The anode, Other electrodes,The envelope | ch2.pdf (3.1MB) |
| Chapter 3 - Hot-Cathode rectifier tubes : Low-voltage tubes, High voltage tubes, Mercury vapour /arc rectifiers, Tungar rectifiers | ch3.pdf (2.5MB) |
| Chapter 4 - Thyratrons : Triodes, Tetrodes | ch4.pdf (3.1MB) |
| Chapter 5 - Cold-Cathode tubes : Diodes, Surge arresters, Ionisation tubes, radiation counter tubes, geiger tubes, tuning tubes (tuneon), counting tubes (dekatrons), indicator tubes (nixies) | ch5.pdf (5.5MB) |
| Chapter 6 - Mercury cathode tubes : Ignitron, Excitron, sendytron | ch6.pdf (3.5MB) |
| Chapter 7 - Photocells with gas amplification | ch7.pdf (1.3MB) |
| Chapter 8 - Special tubes : noise tubes, plasmatron, neutron generators, physical constants, list of "-tron" devices | ch8.pdf (2.5MB) |
Articles/books on other sites :
Interesting 1958 article on generating numeric characters on a CRT using entirely analogue methods