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
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
Researchers are preparing to scrutinize nature at tiny scales by stretching supercooled atoms into room-length waves as they drop them down a 100-meter vacuum tube.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 14, 2020
In 1920, the memorably named Philo T. Farnsworth conceived the cathode ray vacuum tube used in most all twentieth-century TV sets.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
