audion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of audion
Formerly a trademark
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January 20, 2010 1:41 pm Link I want to ask the same question as the first, what are the best options in small video with audion input?
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2010
With this inventor's audion radio tube, the babble of formerly isolated voices, for good or evil . . . has been propelled to the farthest corners of the earth .
From Time Magazine Archive
Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed, it purchased from Lee DeForest, leading radio inventor, the patent rights of his audion vacuum tube, which is basic to all amplifying systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
The transformation was effected by a bulb of four electrodes, with much higher potential than the audion bulbs commonly used in wireless.
From Time Magazine Archive
After learning to receive with this simple set I should recommend buying a good audion tube.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills
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