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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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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There is no glass envelope, as in an electron tube, and no complicated insides.

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Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation.

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The incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube.

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