radio tube
Americannoun
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When, in 1927, RCA evolved a new radio tube which needed no storage battery, Philadelphia Storage Battery Co.
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
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
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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