radio tube
Americannoun
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He�V. K. Zworykin� was demonstrating a radio tube* so sensitive that the mere interruption of light-rays is enough to stop or start it.
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
The tube is completely sealed-off, like an ordinary radio tube, needs no pumping to maintain the high vacuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
I didn't suppose that such a simple thing as a radio tube could hold you up, after the perfectly unbelievable things that you have done already—but I see now how it could.
From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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