February 1941 QST
 Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
QST, published December 1915 - present (visit ARRL
for info). All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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Some of us like seeing the old advertisements
from vintage era magazines. This Taylor Tubes advertisement from the February 1941
edition of the ARRL's QST magazine is a prime example. Vacuum tubes had
a high degree of automation for stamping out internal components, forming the glass
shells and evacuation of the air, but they still required human production line
operators for assembling the components prior to being encapsulated and sealed.
National Instruments hadn't invented LabVIEW yet to run the testing station, so
people manually placed the tubes into a board full of sockets for burn-in and testing.Taylor Tubes Advertisement
Posted August 30, 2021
(updated from original post on 10/7/2012)
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