vacuum tube
Example Sentences
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A smaller, more reliable way to regulate electric currents, transistors would replace bulky, easily broken vacuum tubes in computers and other devices.
From Washington Post
Scientists communicated with these room-size machines by feeding mathematical and textual instructions into vacuum tubes via typewriters, magnetic tape and punched cards.
From New York Times
For over 150 years, people have dreamed of high-speed travel via pneumatic vacuum tubes, allowing them to shoot underground from one place to the next.
From New York Times
It has been a transportation dream for over 150 years: In the 1870s, a test system used a pneumatic vacuum tube to propel people under Manhattan from Warren Street to Murray Street.
From New York Times
Huge vacuum tubes hanging from the ceiling remove dust.
From Reuters
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