Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Nixie tube

Index Nixie tube

A Nixie tube, or cold cathode display, is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge. [1]

70 relations: Alphanumeric, Ampere, Anode, Apple Inc., Argon, Backronym, Belarus, Binary-coded decimal, Bipolar junction transistor, Burroughs Corporation, Calculator, Cathode, Cathode ray tube, Cavity magnetron, Cold cathode, Counter (digital), Dekatron, Dewey Decimal Classification, Direct current, Display device, Electron, Electronics, Elevator, Elsevier, Financial quote, Fourteen-segment display, Frequency counter, Gas-filled tube, Generic trademark, Glow discharge, Hermetic seal, Hindu–Arabic numeral system, IEEE Spectrum, Incandescent light bulb, Integrated circuit, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Control Number, Light-emitting diode, Lightguide display, London, McGraw-Hill Education, Mercury (element), Multimeter, Neck (water spirit), Negative resistance, Neon, Neon lamp, New old stock, New York City, Nimo tube, ..., Ohm, Penning mixture, Resistor, Scientific American, Seven-segment display, Sixteen-segment display, Sputtering, Stencil, Stepping switch, Sumlock ANITA calculator, Thermionic emission, Trademark, Traffic Service Position System, United Kingdom, UNIVAC 1101, Vacuum fluorescent display, Vacuum tube, Volt, Voltmeter, 7400 series. Expand index (20 more) »

Alphanumeric

Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits or a text constructed from this collection.

New!!: Nixie tube and Alphanumeric · See more »

Ampere

The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to "amp",SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.

New!!: Nixie tube and Ampere · See more »

Anode

An anode is an electrode through which the conventional current enters into a polarized electrical device.

New!!: Nixie tube and Anode · See more »

Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

New!!: Nixie tube and Apple Inc. · See more »

Argon

Argon is a chemical element with symbol Ar and atomic number 18.

New!!: Nixie tube and Argon · See more »

Backronym

A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym.

New!!: Nixie tube and Backronym · See more »

Belarus

Belarus (Беларусь, Biełaruś,; Беларусь, Belarus'), officially the Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь; Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Белоруссия, Byelorussiya), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

New!!: Nixie tube and Belarus · See more »

Binary-coded decimal

In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each decimal digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight.

New!!: Nixie tube and Binary-coded decimal · See more »

Bipolar junction transistor

|- align.

New!!: Nixie tube and Bipolar junction transistor · See more »

Burroughs Corporation

The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.

New!!: Nixie tube and Burroughs Corporation · See more »

Calculator

An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

New!!: Nixie tube and Calculator · See more »

Cathode

A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device.

New!!: Nixie tube and Cathode · See more »

Cathode ray tube

The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube that contains one or more electron guns and a phosphorescent screen, and is used to display images.

New!!: Nixie tube and Cathode ray tube · See more »

Cavity magnetron

The cavity magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field while moving past a series of open metal cavities (cavity resonators).

New!!: Nixie tube and Cavity magnetron · See more »

Cold cathode

A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament.

New!!: Nixie tube and Cold cathode · See more »

Counter (digital)

In digital logic and computing, a counter is a device which stores (and sometimes displays) the number of times a particular event or process has occurred, often in relationship to a clock signal.

New!!: Nixie tube and Counter (digital) · See more »

Dekatron

In electronics, a Dekatron (or Decatron, or generically three-phase gas counting tube or glow-transfer counting tube or cold cathode tube) is a gas-filled decade counting tube.

New!!: Nixie tube and Dekatron · See more »

Dewey Decimal Classification

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

New!!: Nixie tube and Dewey Decimal Classification · See more »

Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

New!!: Nixie tube and Direct current · See more »

Display device

A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).

New!!: Nixie tube and Display device · See more »

Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

New!!: Nixie tube and Electron · See more »

Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

New!!: Nixie tube and Electronics · See more »

Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

New!!: Nixie tube and Elevator · See more »

Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

New!!: Nixie tube and Elsevier · See more »

Financial quote

A financial quotation refers to specific market data relating to a security or commodity.

New!!: Nixie tube and Financial quote · See more »

Fourteen-segment display

A fourteen-segment display (FSD) (sometimes referred to as a starburst display or Union Jack display) is a type of display based on 14 segments that can be turned on or off to produce letters and numerals.

New!!: Nixie tube and Fourteen-segment display · See more »

Frequency counter

A frequency counter is an electronic instrument, or component of one, that is used for measuring frequency.

New!!: Nixie tube and Frequency counter · See more »

Gas-filled tube

A gas-filled tube, also known as a discharge tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating, temperature-resistant envelope.

New!!: Nixie tube and Gas-filled tube · See more »

Generic trademark

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, due to its popularity or significance, has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, usually against the intentions of the trademark's holder.

New!!: Nixie tube and Generic trademark · See more »

Glow discharge

A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas.

New!!: Nixie tube and Glow discharge · See more »

Hermetic seal

A hermetic seal is any type of sealing that makes a given object airtight (excludes the passage of air, oxygen, or other gases).

New!!: Nixie tube and Hermetic seal · See more »

Hindu–Arabic numeral system

The Hindu–Arabic numeral systemDavid Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski,, 1911 (also called the Arabic numeral system or Hindu numeral system) is a positional decimal numeral system that is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world.

New!!: Nixie tube and Hindu–Arabic numeral system · See more »

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum is a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

New!!: Nixie tube and IEEE Spectrum · See more »

Incandescent light bulb

An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows with visible light (incandescence).

New!!: Nixie tube and Incandescent light bulb · See more »

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.

New!!: Nixie tube and Integrated circuit · See more »

Library of Congress Classification

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress.

New!!: Nixie tube and Library of Congress Classification · See more »

Library of Congress Control Number

The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloging records in the Library of Congress in the United States.

New!!: Nixie tube and Library of Congress Control Number · See more »

Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

New!!: Nixie tube and Light-emitting diode · See more »

Lightguide display

A Lightguide display (also known as an edge-lit display) is an obsolete electronic mechanism which was used for displaying alphanumeric characters in electronic devices such as calculators, multimeters, laboratory measurement instruments, and entertainment machines such as pinball games.

New!!: Nixie tube and Lightguide display · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Nixie tube and London · See more »

McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

New!!: Nixie tube and McGraw-Hill Education · See more »

Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

New!!: Nixie tube and Mercury (element) · See more »

Multimeter

A multimeter or a multitester, also known as a VOM (volt-ohm-milliammeter), is an electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one unit.

New!!: Nixie tube and Multimeter · See more »

Neck (water spirit)

The neck, nicor, nixie or nokken (Nixe; nikker, nekker; Danish: nøkke; nøkk; näck; näkki; näkk) are shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore who usually appeared in forms of other creatures.

New!!: Nixie tube and Neck (water spirit) · See more »

Negative resistance

In electronics, negative resistance (NR) is a property of some electrical circuits and devices in which an increase in voltage across the device's terminals results in a decrease in electric current through it.

New!!: Nixie tube and Negative resistance · See more »

Neon

Neon is a chemical element with symbol Ne and atomic number 10.

New!!: Nixie tube and Neon · See more »

Neon lamp

A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas discharge lamp.

New!!: Nixie tube and Neon lamp · See more »

New old stock

New old stock (NOS), also backronymed as "new on the shelf" or "new off the shelf", refers to obsolete equipment, or original parts (components) for obsolete equipment, that have never been sold at retail.

New!!: Nixie tube and New old stock · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Nixie tube and New York City · See more »

Nimo tube

Nimo was the trademark of a family of very small non-standard CRTs manufactured by Industrial Electronics Engineers around mid-1960s, with 10 electron guns with stencils which shaped the electron beam as digits.

New!!: Nixie tube and Nimo tube · See more »

Ohm

The ohm (symbol: Ω) is the SI derived unit of electrical resistance, named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm.

New!!: Nixie tube and Ohm · See more »

Penning mixture

A Penning mixture, named after Frans Michel Penning, is a mixture of gases used in electric lighting or displaying fixtures.

New!!: Nixie tube and Penning mixture · See more »

Resistor

A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element.

New!!: Nixie tube and Resistor · See more »

Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

New!!: Nixie tube and Scientific American · See more »

Seven-segment display

A seven-segment display (SSD), or seven-segment indicator, is a form of electronic display device for displaying decimal numerals that is an alternative to the more complex dot matrix displays.

New!!: Nixie tube and Seven-segment display · See more »

Sixteen-segment display

A sixteen-segment display (SISD) is a type of display based on 16 segments that can be turned on or off according to the graphic pattern to be produced.

New!!: Nixie tube and Sixteen-segment display · See more »

Sputtering

Sputtering is a process whereby particles are ejected from a solid target material due to bombardment of the target by energetic particles, particularly gas ions in a laboratory.

New!!: Nixie tube and Sputtering · See more »

Stencil

Stencilling produces an image or pattern by applying pigment to a surface over an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface.

New!!: Nixie tube and Stencil · See more »

Stepping switch

In electrical controls, a stepping switch or stepping relay, also known as a uniselector, is an electromechanical device that switches an input signal path to one of several possible output paths, directed by a train of electrical pulses.

New!!: Nixie tube and Stepping switch · See more »

Sumlock ANITA calculator

The ANITA Mark VII and ANITA Mark VIII calculators were launched simultaneously in late 1961 as the world's first all-electronic desktop calculators.

New!!: Nixie tube and Sumlock ANITA calculator · See more »

Thermionic emission

Thermionic emission is the thermally induced flow of charge carriers from a surface or over a potential-energy barrier.

New!!: Nixie tube and Thermionic emission · See more »

Trademark

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-markThe styling of trademark as a single word is predominantly used in the United States and Philippines only, while the two-word styling trade mark is used in many other countries around the world, including the European Union and Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth jurisdictions (although Canada officially uses "trade-mark" pursuant to the Trade-mark Act, "trade mark" and "trademark" are also commonly used).

New!!: Nixie tube and Trademark · See more »

Traffic Service Position System

The Traffic Service Position System (TSPS) was developed by Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio to replace traditional cord switchboards.

New!!: Nixie tube and Traffic Service Position System · See more »

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

New!!: Nixie tube and United Kingdom · See more »

UNIVAC 1101

The ERA 1101, later renamed UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed and built by Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in the early 1950s and continued to be sold by the Remington Rand corporation after that company later purchased ERA.

New!!: Nixie tube and UNIVAC 1101 · See more »

Vacuum fluorescent display

A vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) is a display device used commonly on consumer electronics equipment such as video cassette recorders, car radios, and microwave ovens.

New!!: Nixie tube and Vacuum fluorescent display · See more »

Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.

New!!: Nixie tube and Vacuum tube · See more »

Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

New!!: Nixie tube and Volt · See more »

Voltmeter

A voltmeter is an instrument used for measuring electrical potential difference between two points in an electric circuit.

New!!: Nixie tube and Voltmeter · See more »

7400 series

The 7400 series of transistor–transistor logic (TTL) integrated circuits are the most popular family of TTL integrated circuit logic.

New!!: Nixie tube and 7400 series · See more »

Redirects here:

Beam-X Switch, Cold cathode display, Digitron, Haydu Brothers Laboratories, Inditron, Magnetron beam-switching tube, Nixie Tube, Nixie Tubes, Nixie tubes, Nixies, Pixie tube, Pixie tubes, Trochotron.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »