vacuum tube
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For a time, it used 5 million volts of electricity to shoot hydrogen nuclei down a vacuum tube at up to 100 million miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.
From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023
In the 1920s, once the vacuum tube and the triode had been developed, commercial radio that broadcast news, music, and radio plays became available as well.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Dr. Ashkin worked at a Columbia University laboratory during World War II, developing a magnetron — a vacuum tube that generates microwaves — as part of an Army radar program.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2020
Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
