There he found a TGI1-50/5 hydrogen thyratron, a tube that has a small hydrogen gas generator inside – thyratrons are actually gas-filled rather than vacuum tubes and switch heavy currents ...

Object Details maker General Electric Company Description In this component, three pieces of wood are stacked to create a base. Mounted on it are four pairs of black plastic knobs as well as two other ...

This hydrogen thyratron ended up being just the thing for [Kerry Wong]’s high-voltage, high-current experiments.

News Published: 18 April 1942 The Direct-Current Amplifier in Industry Nature 149, 436 (1942) Cite this article ...