Nixie tube

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Nixie tube

(ˈnɪksɪ)

(Electronics) electronics another name for digitron

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Then, one day, as a hobby, he began to make a Nixie tube clock inspired by a calculator he remembered from his school days that used the 1950s technology for its display.

Amazing Nixie tube clocks

Basically, each of the digits is projected by an electronic valve called a nixie tube. It's a kind of technology that went out about 50 years ago and only particularly bloody-minded Russians produce them these days.

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