vacuum tube
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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 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
To measure this force within their vacuum tube, the researchers will suspend two samples made of different materials from a two-meter-tall, 1.50-meter-wide balance and induce the Casimir effect within one.
From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 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
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
