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The History of the Diode

by jpace121 on 8/16/16, 12:55 AM with 1 comments

• by SmellTheGlove on 8/16/16, 1:01 AM

  I'd never seen a mercury-arc rectifier before. I'm going to guess those couldn't be deployed outside. Apparently there were still some in use until 2012, though.

  Can't imagine the clean up effort if the glass breaks.