{"id":3708,"date":"2024-01-18T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2024-01-14T19:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:18:01","slug":"til-the-first-vacuum-tubes-looked-like-adorable-robot-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/01\/til-the-first-vacuum-tubes-looked-like-adorable-robot-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL: The first vacuum tubes looked like adorable robot viruses!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These lil fellas were created by English engineer John Ambrose Fleming in 1904, and used for the first transatlantic radio transmissions. My son characterizes them as<em><strong> &#8220;Bacteriophages, but with the personality of the Pixar lamp.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Agreed. &#x1f9a0;&#x1f916;&#x1f495;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(props to <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gutenberg_org\/111419791423679907\">Project Gutenberg for the tip<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThree vintage vacuum tubes with various internal structures, mounted on stands with visible wiring and components.\u201d [AI-generated description, which I love!]\n\" class=\"wp-image-3709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND-1200x739.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/URS-OURS-OND.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These lil fellas were created by English engineer John Ambrose Fleming in 1904, and used for the first transatlantic radio transmissions. My son characterizes them as &#8220;Bacteriophages, but with the personality of the Pixar lamp.&#8221; Agreed. &#x1f9a0;&#x1f916;&#x1f495; (props to Project Gutenberg for the tip)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[904,572,973,79,41,974],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/111777355193791195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}