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The GM Tube
The Gieger Muller Tube The first transducer we’re looking at as part of our series on transducers is the GM Tube. You might not know what a GM Tube is, or even what they look like, but you almost certainly know what one sounds like. A slow-clicking sound in the background suddenly rises to a crescendo when…
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Transducer Thursdays
Our modern world—smartphones, electric cars, wind turbines, the Internet of Things, AI, drones—relies upon humble transducers. Transducers, technically speaking, are any devices that convert energy from one form to another, whether that be mechanical to electrical, electric to chemical, or chemical to EM—any form of energy into another. In their purest form, any heat engine,…
