The March 2021 issue of the Bell Jar is available
This sixteenth issue may be found on the Articles & Publications page. Topics include Mark Atherton’s homemade triode, electron optics kits (then and now),
an update on surface micro-discharge plasmas and nebulizers and the usual listing of articles of possible interest in Vacuum Technology & Coating magazine.
Introducing the BVES
March 25, 2020. Complete documentation for a low-cost vacuum educational tool (the Basic Vacuum Education System or BVES) is now available. Check out the Vacuum Education page
for details.
We're (still) Rebuilding!
March 20, 2020 Status Summary:
Over the past few months, the big news has been the resumption of the Bell Jar as a monthly, free publication. I have gotten good feedback but it will
probably take a while to start receiving reader projects. Hopefully that will come.
In August 2019 a new Education section was added (see the navigation button). This set of pages contains a set of information on
vacuum training equipment (including legacy systems), details on construction, exercise information, etc. Information on new trainers is in progress.
During the latter half of 2019 the old Flash videos were updated. The Forum is now disabled and a number of pages have been retired. Some are simply not
relevant anymore. Others need to be retooled. This would include the Books page where I had Amazon links. This will be replaced with descriptions and no links.
I am no longer providing accessories such as adapters, chambers, etc. The volume was never high enough to justify the effort. These will be replaced by
drawings and commercial sources.
I stopped posting links to my Vacuum Technology & Coating articles in 2012. The publisher also changed the the on line magazine server.
I will have an index to articles (2009-present) with issue month/year, title and an optional brief description. As a precursor to this, I have been
grouping my articles into topic areas (gauging, pumping performance, etc.) and publishing a selection in each issue of the Bell Jar.
I have retained my "man-in-vacuum" logo, even though it creeps some people out (so I've heard).
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