vacuum tube

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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Before silicon, there were vacuum tubes, and before that, there were wires and telegraphs.

From Science Daily

However, the quantum noise that lurks inside the vacuum tubes that encase LIGO's laser beams can alter the timing of the photons in the beams by minutely small amounts.

From Science Daily

In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today’s semiconductor chips.

From Scientific American