radio tube
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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His incisive understanding of their experiments with a new radio tube left them speechless, unable to believe that he had quit school when he was 13.
From Time Magazine Archive
Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
His engineering achievements, he said, included the Packard straight-eight motor, the A.E.F.'s front line trenches, the DeForest radio tube, the machine for sewing seams in the back of stockings.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now,” said Jack, “is the time that I wish I had my 20-kilowatt radio tube that I have been working on so long.”
From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Breckenridge, Gerald
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