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Loewe 3NF (1926) -- the first integrated circuit?
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Location: Sydney, NSW
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From the wiki:
The Loewe 3NF was an early attempt to combine several functions in one electronic device.
Produced by the German Loewe-Audion GmbH as early as 1926, the device consisted of three triode valves (tubes) in a single glass envelope together with two fixed capacitors and four fixed resistors required to make a complete radio receiver. The resistors and capacitors had to be sealed in their own glass tubes to prevent them from contaminating the vacuum.
The only other parts required to build a radio receiver were the tuning coil, the tuning capacitor and the loudspeaker. The device was produced not to enter the integrated circuit era several decades early, but to evade German taxes levied on a per valve holder basis. As the Loewe set had only one valve holder, it was able to substantially undercut the competition. The resultant radio receiver required a 90 volt HT plus a 4 volt LT (A and B) battery (the HT battery provided not only 82.5 volts for the HT, but also two grid bias supplies at −1.5 volts and −7.5 volts).
One major disadvantage of the 3NF was that if one filament failed, the whole device was rendered useless. Loewe countered this by offering a filament repair service.
Loewe were to also offer the 2NF (two tetrodes plus passive components) and the WG38 (two pentodes, a triode and the passive components).
https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_3nf.html
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Some videos:
Russian explanation with English over-dubbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8StV497sQ
Testing a 3NF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WguMWfYKBCI
Loewe receiver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEXZMkKhuUc
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Location: Bathurst, NSW
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Read about the 3NF some where else and certainly there was a lot of innovative things tried in those early days.
Even in the days they were made must have been a costly item to buy.
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Location: Silver City WI, US
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This is amazing for the mid 1920s!
in the video:
The Russian demonstrates radio while holding lit cigarette ( cigs only $1.50 a pack there!)
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Location: Belrose, NSW
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"Grandpa, what's a cigarette?"
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