vacuum tube
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For a time, it used 5 million volts of electricity to shoot hydrogen nuclei down a vacuum tube at up to 100 million miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today’s semiconductor chips.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.
From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023
Just a few years after the war, digital computing received a huge boost with the invention of the transistor, a device with far more computing potential than its predecessor the vacuum tube.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
