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I'm fascinated by magnetic amplifiers too. Not the BS magnetic field amplifiers (Carver), but real magnetic amplifiers. Although mag amps were invented in the late 1800s, their technological advancement reached it's peak in Nazi Germany, when the Wehrmact aggressively pursued development of mag amps for controlling the V-2, because they were more resistant to shock and vibration than vacuum tube circuits. Magnetic amps are so robust that they even found use on the Concorde for guidance and landing, until they were ultimately replaced by solid state electronics.
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I'm fascinated by magnetic amplifiers too. Not the BS magnetic field amplifiers (Carver), but real magnetic amplifiers. Although mag amps were invented in the late 1800s, their technological advancement reached it's peak in Nazi Germany, when the Wehrmact aggressively pursued development of mag amps for controlling the V-2, because they were more resistant to shock and vibration than vacuum tube circuits. Magnetic amps are so robust that they even found use on the Concorde for guidance and landing, until they were ultimately replaced by solid state electronics.
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