Tubes may be heated transversely or longitudinally, where the former ones have the advantage of a more homogeneous temperature distribution over their length.

Tubes can also be regarded as graphic brushes based on a pre-created image ; this was their original use.

Also in 2008, the defendants of United States v LG Display Co., United States v. Chunghwa Picture Tubes, and United States v. Sharp Corporation heard in the Northern District of California, agreed to pay a total sum of $ 585 million to settle their prosecutions for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels, which was the second largest amount awarded under the Sherman Act in history.

Among the many well-known bands and artists who contributed their music to the show were Roger Daltrey, El Debarge, Devo, Russ Ballard, Black Uhuru, Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Meat Loaf, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, The Tubes, Dire Straits, Depeche Mode, The Hooters, Iron Maiden, The Alan Parsons Project, The Ward Brothers, Godley & Creme, Corey Hart, Glenn Frey, U2, Underworld, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Foreigner, The Police, Red 7, Ted Nugent, Suicidal Tendencies, The Damned and Billy Idol.

The Tubes ' third album gave way to thematic experimentation with Now ( 1977 ) and after their live record What Do You Want from Live ( 1978 ), recorded during their record breaking run at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, the fourth album for A & M, Remote Control ( 1979 ) was a concept album produced by Todd Rundgren about a television-addicted idiot-savant.

One critic opined that with their media savvy and theatrical skills, The Tubes were born to create rock video, but arrived several years too early.

With Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby no longer with Capitol, The Tubes were dropped just as they were going on a national tour in support of the album — a tour that would leave the band a half million dollars in debt, forcing them to play low-budget gigs for a year to pay off their debts.

On September 23, 2007, the remaining members of the Tubes reunited in Phoenix for their induction into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame.

The Tubes had their biggest radio hit with the single " She's a Beauty " ( flipside of single was non-album track " When You're Ready to Come ").

Among the students were a number of performance artists and musicians, including Karen Finley, whose performances challenged notions of femininity and political power, and Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten, who presented their first performance as the Tubes in the SFAI lecture hall, and became pioneers in the field of music video.

Spooner left the Tubes for their temporary disbanding in 1985, and again left the Tubes in 1989, thus giving up use of a 24 track automated recording studio which the band had used.

In subsequent issues it is revealed that Cyborg's teleportation powers are linked to the Boom Tubes ( thanks to upgrades performed by his father utilizing the Mother Box found by the team in their initial adventure ), and that every 1, 000 times he uses this technology, a glitch in it transports he and his Justice League comrades to Apokolips.

In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, which included the single " TV-Glotzer " ( a cover of " White Punks on Dope " by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics ), and Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo, about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station.

This was in spite of the fact that plasmas continued to hold an image quality advantage, but as the president of Chunghwa Picture Tubes noted after shutting down their plasma production line, " Globally, so many companies, so many investments, so many people have been working in this area, on this product.

According to The Tubes ' official site, the now out of print video collection contained music videos primarily for tracks that appeared on their 1981 album The Completion Backward Principle.

* The DC Animated Universe incorporated the Boom Tubes in their shows: They were first seen in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Batman Beyond.

Tubes varied widely in their actual characteristics, and engineers had developed techniques to ensure that the overall circuit was not overly sensitive to these changes.

Tubes designed for high gain audio applications may have twisted heater wires to cancel out stray hum fields from being induced into the cathode.

Dolly Parton was dressed in white and, with a team of brightly clad singers, portrayed an angelic host while The Tubes, dressed in black leather and performing " Mondo Bondage ", battled to send Cher's soul into eternal damnation.

Tubes of fabric are machine-processed and can be cut into various shapes by the consumer.

Tubes below feed steam into and out of the superheater elements within the flues.

* Bachmann Tubes, which carry Ringgold Road through Missionary Ridge from Chattanooga into the neighboring town of East Ridge.

It has been divided up into several sections, including, from the top of the point, Kitchen Windows, Magna tubes, Boneyards, Supertubes, Impossibles, Tubes, the Point, and Albatross.

Tubes below feed steam into and out of the superheater elements within the flues.

The Tubes ' live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s were rife with allusions to mainstream film ( Dr. Strangelove, Rollerball, Saturday Night Fever, Grease ), then-forgotten B-movies ( Wild Women of Wongo, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ), music ( Tom Jones, punk rock, a medley of Nelson Riddle television themes ), contemporary pop culture ( Patty Hearst, the Viking program ), television ( Let's Make a Deal, Fernwood 2Nite, the anime Raideen ), and literature ( Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side ), presaging the subcultural reverence and over-the-top theatricality of later groups like The World / Inferno Friendship Society.

In 2001, the band released a live CD, The Tubes World Tour 2001, and continued to tour.

On April 3, The Tubes performed live with Dolly Parton on Cher ... Special, in the " Musical Battle to Save Cher's Soul Medley ".

He partnered with Ladanyi's Tidal Wave Entertainment in 1999 for a year, during which time they co-produced The Tubes ' live / studio hybrid album Tubes World Tour 2001, which featured collaborations with David Foster, Richard Marx and Steve Lukather.

The first modest happening called the " Burning of Tubes " was organized as early as 1985 in Wrocław by Major Waldemar Fydrych accompanied by a small group of artists to which belonged: Krzysztof Skarbek, Piotr Petyszkowski, Andrzej Głuszek and Sławomir Monkiewicz.

Intended to be the band's first " break-through " album, Caress of Steel sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller venues, which led to the moniker the " Down the Tubes Tour ".

Tubes have different functions, such as cathode ray tubes which create a beam of electrons for display purposes ( such as the television picture tube ) in addition to more specialized functions such as electron microscopy and electron beam lithography.

* Blood vessels – Tubes which carry blood around the body.

This was followed a year later by the first American video album, The Completion Backward Principle by The Tubes, directed by the group's keyboard player Michael Cotten, which included two videos directed by Russell Mulcahy (" Talk To Ya Later " and " Don't Want To Wait Anymore ").

Tubes are usually made either of steel or aluminium, although there is composite scaffolding, which uses filament-wound tubes of glass fibre in a nylon or polyester matrix, because of the high cost of composite tube, it is usually only used when there is a risk from overhead electric cables that cannot be isolated.

", which became another of the Tubes ' signature songs, satirizes consumerism and celebrity culture and climaxes in a " hard-sell " monologue by Waybill, which name-checks celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Paul Williams and Randolph Mantooth and well-known products of the period including the Dynagym exercise machine and a host of American vehicles including the Winnebago and the Mercury Montclair.

However, the band did produce at least one collection of music videos, which were issued on the 1982 Pioneer Artists laserdisc " The Tubes Video " ( this videodisc contained versions of twelve of the band's hits, including " White Punks on Dope ", " Mondo Bondage ", " Talk to Ya Later ", and several others from yet-to-be-completed " The Completion Backwards Principle " album, in slickly produced music videos based on the group's stage shows ).

1974: Tubes shoot " video demo " at California Hall, which lands a record deal at A & M Records, Cotten / Prince paint " Flying Record " mural on A & M sound stage.

Tubes create warm overdrive sounds because instead of cutting the peaked signal off, they more or less pull the peaked audio information back ( like natural compression ) which creates a fuzzy overdrive sound.

The difference here is that instead of a facility which cannot move, it appears to be an ability possessed by the Decepticons in general, or some device they carry with them, not unlike the Boom Tubes created by Motherboxes.

Tubes that are too small will create exhaust flow resistance which the engine must work to expel the exhaust gas from the chamber, reducing power and leaving exhaust in the chamber to dilute the incoming intake charge.

Tubes may be tagged ( reduced in diameter to enable the tube to be initially fed through the die to then be pulled from the other side ) using a rotary swager, which allows them to be drawn on a draw bench.

Because the characters cannot meet face-to-face, they can trade items using a system of " Vac Tubes ," which can transport 4 items to other Vac Tubes at a time.