2,880 CHF
Nixie Time-Code Generator Patek Philippe, Genève, “Multicapt” series 730306, Model 40 735, retailed by Gubelin. Made circa 1975. Very fine and rare, Nixie time-code generator module with voltmeter. Rectangular, blue anodized brushed aluminium fascia, grey coated top and sides. Notes Nixie Tube Is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information. The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode, and multiple cathodes in the shape of Arabic numerals Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and often a little mercury and/or argon. Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold-cathode tube (a form of gas filled tube), or a variant of a neon lamp. Such tubes rarely exceed 40 °C (104 °F) even under the severest of operating conditions in a room at ambient temperature. The most common form of nixie tube has ten cathodes in the shapes of the numerals 0 to 9 (and occasionally a decimal point or two) but there are also types that show various letters, signs and symbols.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-16
