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
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
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 "Father of Radio" �whose 1906 invention of the audion tube had also made possible long-distance telephony, talking movies and television �had burned out his fourth fortune and wound up with $1,250.
From Time Magazine Archive
That’s the same sort of thing that happens in the case of the inductance and condenser in the oscillating audion circuit except for one important fact.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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