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The earliest vacuum tubes were used as direct display devices, and also as rectifiers of alternating current. In 1906 Lee De Forest invented the triode valve, from which all subsequent vacuum devices have devolved. The triode allowed the electronic amplification of electrical signals, and from this, our modern communications industries have developed.
Amplifiers may be made into oscillators by applying feedback.
The triode may also be made into a switch (of various sorts), and this is the base on which the digital industries are based. This craft embodies the technologies of electronics, combined with Boolean algebra and signal theory.
Quite complex assemblies of valves may be combined, such as triode-hexode combinations. Very large power may be controlled by the triode principles.
Modern Thyristor assemblies - today's solid-state equivalent of the vacuum tube - may be used to control Megawatts of power in High Voltage Direct Current transmission systems.
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What is alternative of semiconductor?
as a material, nothingas a device to perform the function, vacuum tubes or magnetic amplifiers
How many vacuum tubes are in the Univac I computer?
It used 5200 vacuum tubes.
Do all vacuum tubes light up?
No, there are some cold cathode vacuum tubes. These do not light.
Reasons for no air in vacuum tubes?
Vacuum tubes perform their various functions on the principle of streaming electrons: that is electrons able to fly across space from one electrode to another. If there is air in the tube then this is a barrier to the electron's flight and the tube cannot function.
Where is a good place near Seattle where you can buy old vacuum tubes?
This would depend on the type of vacuum tubes needed. Any car part store will carry vacuum tubes for a car, general stores carry vacuum tubes for household vacuums, and AC part stores will carry vacuum tubes for the AC/Heating system of a house.?æ
Where was vacuum tube was made?
who made the vacuum tubes
How many vocum tubes were in the eniac?
The ENIAC has 17,468 vacuum tubes. These tubes were the first technology that made computers function. Modern computers do not use this technology.
How many vacuum tubes in first generation computer?
ENIAC was the first digital general purpose computer, built in 1946, and with 17,468 vacuum tubes. The Illiac I, the first computer built and owned by a US educational institution, had 2800 vacuum tubes. The IBM 604 had about 2000 vacuum tubes.
What technology replaced vacuum tubes in the second generation?
Vacuum tubes were first replaced by transistors, and later by integrated circuits.
Why modern devices use integrated circuit instead of vacuum tubes?
Modern devices use integrated circuits instead of vacuum tubes because integrated circuits occupy less space than vacuum tubes, are more efficient, consumes less energy and are more reliable than vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tubes generation?
first
What has the author Karl R Spangenberg written?
Karl R. Spangenberg has written: 'Vacuum tubes' -- subject(s): Vacuum-tubes
