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
Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed, it purchased from Lee DeForest, leading radio inventor, the patent rights of his audion vacuum tube, which is basic to all amplifying systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Dear Son: You remember the audion characteristics which I used in Figs.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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