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the vacuum tube
A vacuum tube is simply a tube with no oxygen nor carbon dioxide in it (aka no air).
Millman's theorem
who made the vacuum tubes
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.
an electron tube containing a near-vacuum that allows the free passage of electric current.
* == 1st generation vacuum tube look like as a parallel electric bulb. _____ ----_____)
Vacuum tubes are typically evacuated of gases to create a vacuum inside. However, some specialized vacuum tubes may use inert gases like argon or neon to improve performance or provide specific characteristics.
To remove oxygen from a test tube, one method is to displace it with an inert gas, such as nitrogen or argon. By flushing the test tube with the inert gas, the oxygen is pushed out. Another method is to create a vacuum inside the test tube to remove the oxygen. This can be done using a vacuum pump or a syringe to pull the air out of the tube.
In 1907 American inventor Lee De Forest invented the three-electrode vacuum tube
In 1907 American inventor Lee De Forest invented the three-electrode vacuum tube
It is necessary to maintain vacuum in a vacuum tube to provide the electrons a free path from cathode to anode without triggering ionization. If there was air or some other gas in the tube, the electron flow would cause it to ionize and the control grid would have reduced or even no control of the conduction of the tube. There are gas filled tubes that depend on this ionization: for example in thyratrons, once the control grid starts conduction ionization takes over and the grid has no more control, you have to turn off the B+ supply in some way to reset it.