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 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
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
Usually, however, they are called “electrodes” and that is why the audion is spoken of as the “three-electrode vacuum tube.”
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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