Comments on: Vintage Radio and Scientific Equipment

Vintage Radio and Scientific Equipment

mediareport — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:35:48 -0800

The Spark Museum John Jenkins' collection of vintage wireless, radio, scientific and electrical equipment, including Crookes and Geissler tubes, Barlow wheels and other early electric motors, loud speakers and many more oddball electrical devices. [via TeamDroid]

By: peewinkle

peewinkle — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:00:39 -0800

awesome!!!! and to think I used to hate my science courses......

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:19:52 -0800

some of us still use vacuum tubes (valves) in our stereos

By: stenseng

stenseng — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:29:52 -0800

Is it just me, or did the Crookes and Geissler tubes page look like the online catalog of an awesome head shop at first glance?

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:07:06 -0800

Great stuff — this is what computers should be made out of, just for the visuals. More glowing Geissler goodness at The Cathode Ray Tube Site.

By: infini

infini — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:37:59 -0800

Lovely FPP, thanks a lot for bringing back memories! My grandfather graduated from engineering college in India in the early 1930's and he had a full collection of the "electromechanical" engineering books he used. I used to love "looking at the pictures" :)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:09:33 -0800

Nice, nice, very nice! Love this kinda stuff! Thanks, mediareport.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:19:54 -0800

What a great site, thanks mediareport!. What beautiful design went into so many of these daily objects. Love those cathode ray tubes and those speakers! I also liked the advertising and ephemera page - scroll down to see Bonzo the Pup, the Crosely Radio mascot - much funkier than the ubiquitous RCA dog.

By: the painkiller

the painkiller — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:52:07 -0800

mmm, glowing tubes - great post. i've always had a soft spot for mercury arc rectifiers ^.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:23:44 -0800

Scott's Nixie Tube Clock (for your Windows Desktop.)