electron tube
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This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube.
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The incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube.
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What is more, the electron tube can hear, feel, taste, remember, measure, count and talk.
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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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In an ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum.
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