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
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 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
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
This is the audion, which is the distinguishing feature of the De Forest wireless telegraph and wireless telephone.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
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