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Collectors/collections

Bulbmuseum - a fine collection of bulbs
Cathode Ray Tube collection: Collection of CRTs, camera tubes etc.
Cathode Ray Tube site: Electronic glassware, history and equipment
Dieter's Nixie site: Nixie collection, projects etc.
Hans-Thomas Schmidt's collection: A fine collection and lots of data
Kilokat's antique light bulb and vacuum tube site: Collection of bulbs and valves
Mike's Electric Stuff: Valve collection plus lots of experiments
O'Neill's Electronic Museum: A collection of valves, radios, phono and telegraph equipment.
National Valve Museum: UK Valve museum, with data
Mr Transistor's pages including the CV collection.

Radio catalogue: more than 74,500 radios with 39,000 pictures and 38,000 schematics plus radio forum.
www.Radiomuseum.org

Ralf Jaeckel's mercury arc rectifier website, showing a collection and information about this larger glassware
Röhren Museum: Run by Thomas Rapp, lots of photos and descriptions
Tera Lab: Experiments, glass blowing, valve museum etc.
Tube Collectors Association: The tube collectors association - join up!
tubecollection.de: An impressive collection
Uli's tube collection: Valve collection
Un secolo da diodo - a site about the centenary of the diode. Also has other historic info as well as valve advertising material.
Vintage Technology Association (component devices section)
Wumpus's old radio world: Radios, valves etc

Suppliers

Antique Electronic Supply
Ask Jan FirstSupplier with lots in stock, including books and data
Billington Export LtdTrader
Chelmer Valve CompanyTrader
Colomor ElectronicsTrader
Crowthorne TubesTrader
EdicronTrader. In business since 1958 selling to the trade under the Edicron brand but now sells to the public too. They specialise in current production rather than NOS and stock virtually all the the different variants of the popular types.
Electronenbuizen sales, base disgrams etc.
George H. Fathauer & Assoc. - see Vacuumtubes Inc.
Helmut Singer Elektronik Supplier in Germany
JustRadios: Capacitors and Schematics for Tube Radios Specializes in high voltage film and electrolytic capacitors for tube radios. Also carries Antique Radio Schematics and service information
Langrex Supplies Ltd One of the old and respected names in the industry, Langrex has been trading in valves and semiconductors for nearly 50 years and is one of the largest traders in the UK with millions of parts available from stock. Their staff are always friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable. Some of the rarer WWII valves in my collection were sourced from here. Their valve stock list is available as a PDF. They also trade on ebay
Micronetics Inc LtdTrader
Richardson ElectronicsSuppliers
Technical & Scientific Supplies
Tejas Tubestrader specialising in rare, high quality NOS audio valves.
Triode ElectronicsAlso has data and lots of links.
Tubesworldtrader
Vacuumtubes Inc.

Vacuum Tubes, Inc. is located in Orlando, Florida. They carry a wide variety over a quarter million tubes - some 3000 different types of new-old-stock tubes for audio, radio, industrial, and governmental customers. Also carried is an expanding selection of new manufacture tubes, tube sockets, capacitors, and other parts and tube-related items.

Owner Jim Cross started selling tubes part time in 1992. Jim has over twenty years experience with tubes. He has written several articles on tubes and tube history. He is on the board of the Tube Collectors Association, and is a past president of that organization. Jim also maintains an interesting Hall of Shame

Vacuumtubes.Net

VacuumTubes.Net is the Vacuum Tubes division of Radio Electric Supply, home of possibly the largest supply of electron vacuum tubes in the world, with an inventory of over 10,000,000 tubes. They stock both NOS (New Old Stock) and factory-new tubes for every application from all major manufacturers including RCA, GE, Sylvania, Raytheon, Tungsol, and Amperex. They also have an extensive list of $1 tubes on their website.

Vacuum Tube ValleyTrader
Valve & Tube Supplies (UK) Run by Rod Burman, a renowned valve guru with a personal collection of over 3,000 individual valves from the origins of the technology at the beginning of the 20th century. Offering an excellent personal service, the highest level of expertise and a no-quibble guarantee of satisfaction, they supply everyone from equipment restorers to hi-fi enthusiasts to collectors. Numerous of the valves in the museum were sourced from here.

If you want me to add a link to your site or modify your entry just e-mail me at jeremy 'at' webiosis.co.uk.

This file was last modified 16:23:03, Wednesday November 25, 2009