Named “Mugwump” in honour of the late William S. Burroughs: Renegade Saint, proponent of Free Speech and Thought, Revered Godfather of Obscenities, and child of the Burroughs Adding Machine dynasty -the popularizers of the Nixie tube.
This tube is to be issued with laser-cut letters, in a numbered edition of 50 for high-voltage enthusiasts, tube collectors, and patrons of Anglo-Saxon verbiage.
This edition is to be followed closely by one of true cold-cathode tubes for DC operation, of the same horizontal readout and succinct emphatic character, with a fill gas of neon or xenon.
The technically inclined should know that the tube is handblown borosilicate glass 120mm in diameter, and 210mm tall; the glass-to-metal sealing sequence from cleaned and properly oxidized tungsten is 775 to 7720 to 7740 glass; the letters are hand cut from pure nickel sheet, and the gas backfill is 10 Torr of pure xenon. The tube is baked out under vacuum at 400C for one hour, as is standard for high vacuum tubes.
Those amused by the history of malediction in glass art should examine the following artifact, dated 1969, in the collection of the renowned Corning Museum of Glass…
http://www.cmog.org/artwork/fuck
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