audion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of audion
Formerly a trademark
Example Sentences
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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
The press received GE's metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907.
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
When the key in the plate circuit of the audion at the sending station is depressed an alternating current is started.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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