electron tube
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On Dec. 7, 1941 the electron tube caught the mutter of Japanese aircraft when they were 132 miles away from Pearl Harbor.
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This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube.
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In an ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum.
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There is no glass envelope, as in an electron tube, and no complicated insides.
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Actual father of electronics is Lee De Forest.* who evolved the first modern electron tube in 1906.
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