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audion

American  
[aw-dee-uhn, -on] / ˈɔ di ən, -ˌɒn /

noun

Electronics.
  1. an early type of triode.


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

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

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 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

The next step is to use the audion as an amplifier of the radio-signal before its detection.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John

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