radio tube
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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What appeared to be a radio tube was installed in the center of the top side.
From Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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