Скачать с ютуб My Radio build of the Borden Radio Company's version of the Armstrong One Tube Radio Kit. в хорошем качестве

My Radio build of the Borden Radio Company's version of the Armstrong One Tube Radio Kit.

My Radio build of the Borden Radio Company's version of the Armstrong One Tube Radio Kit. This was my first radio build. You can hear the radio play towards the end of the video..........A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends, you can get a current to flow through that vacuum. Thomas Edison noticed this first in 1883. While fiddling with lightbulbs he saw that he could get current to jump from the hot filament to a metal plate at the bottom. What Edison discovered (and it was promptly dubbed the "Edison effect") was that electrical current doesn't need a wire to move through. It can travel right through a gas or even a vacuum. The Edison effect, incidentally, is the only piece of scientific work Edison ever did. He was not a scientist but an inventor, a tinkerer. This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor. Edison's discovery that current can travel through a vacuum didn't turn out to be very useful information until 1904. That's when a British scientist named John A. Fleming made a vacuum tube known today as a diode. Then the diode was known as a "valve," because it forced the current in the tube to travel exclusively in one direction. Getting that single directional flow was critical for radio sets which needed to turn the alternating current into direct current. The vacuum tube didn't reach its full maturity until Lee De Forest came along a decade later. DeForest invented something he called the "audion." Not only did it force the current to move in a single direction, but it could be used to increase the current along the way. DeForest put a metal grid in the middle of the vacuum tube. By using a small input current to change the voltage on the grid, De Forest could control the flow of a second, more powerful current, through the tube. The strength of the two currents was not necessarily related -- a weak current might be applied to the tube's grid, but a much stronger current could come out of the main electrodes of the tube. Turning weak currents into strong currents was crucial for a number of new technologies at that time. Bell Labs made use of it for its coast-to-coast phone system and vacuum tubes soon found their way into everything from hearing aids to radios to televisions.