The Plumbicon (trademark of Phillips)is an imaging tube, think of it as the active part of a camera.
the vacuum tube
when the vacuum sucks up things it goes through the tube and into the bag ...Unless you are talking about electronics, then a vacuum tube is used to form an amplifying circuit. Some tubes can emit cathode rays onto a screen (Cathode Ray Tube = CRT) to display a picture and some can function as diodes to regulate current flow.
A vacuum tube does not contain any gases. All the gases are evacuated from the tube and only vacuum is left.
A: ABSOLUTELY but only in its function . To implement a change requires additional power requirements and design
A vacuum tube is simply a tube with no oxygen nor carbon dioxide in it (aka no air).
Millman's theorem
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.
who made the vacuum tubes
The transistor replaced the vacuum tube, allowing radios to get much smaller and portable.
The ECC83 vacuum tube is more commonly sold as the 12AX7 and is a triode tube. This tube is used in a similar way that a modern transistor would be used in audio amplification applications. The ECC83 has a smaller size and a high gain at lower signal levels making it perfect for an audio pre-amp.
Kilobytes and vacuum tubes are not in the same category. At best, a twin triode vacuum tube is a single flip-flop and can hold 1 bit of information, making a vacuum tube about 0.000122 of a kilobyte.