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Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply
We recently started restoring a Teletype Model 19, a Navy communication system introduced in the 1940s. 14 This Teletype was powered by a b...
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| Sep 10, 2018 | Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply by eaguyhn | 131 | 49 |
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