radio tube
Americannoun
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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 tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
That gas is a better vacuum than the best pump could give you on Earth; there are fewer molecules per cubic inch than there are in a radio tube.
From Islands of Space by John Wood Campbell
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