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Arranged in a large hall at the back of the private, nonprofit museum were 46 tables covered with resistors, potentiometers, capacitors, wires, wire nuts, wire markers, vacuum tubes and VU meters.

From Washington Post • Feb. 29, 2016

For the two-step amplifier you must, of course, have besides the above parts the amplifier tubes, variable condensers, batteries rheostats, potentiometers and fixed condensers as explained in Chapter IX.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)

Behind the panel was a tall cylinder wound with shining copper wire, and beside it another panel, upright, fairly bristling with knobs, contact points, potentiometers, rheostats and switches.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Bates, Harry