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
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
Dr. Ashkin worked at a Columbia University laboratory during World War II, developing a magnetron — a vacuum tube that generates microwaves — as part of an Army radar program.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2020
At first I thought the radio’s vacuum tube had blown, but then a man’s voice came on the radio.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
