electron tube
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Lee de Forest, 77, inventor of the electron tube, who sometimes worries about its development into radio and television, had a moment of mellow reflection following General MacArthur's coverage on TV.
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Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation.
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Actual father of electronics is Lee De Forest.* who evolved the first modern electron tube in 1906.
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In an ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum.
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What is more, the electron tube can hear, feel, taste, remember, measure, count and talk.
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