Audion vacuum tube

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf vacuum tube
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs triode
gptkbp:component early amplifiers
early radios
early telephone repeaters
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:enables electronic amplification
development of electronics industry
gptkbp:hasElectrodes anode
cathode
control grid
gptkbp:historicalSignificance first electronic amplifying device
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Audion vacuum tube
gptkbp:introducedIn 1906
gptkbp:inventedBy gptkb:Lee_De_Forest
gptkbp:material glass envelope
gptkbp:patent gptkb:US879532A
gptkb:Lee_De_Forest
1908
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Fleming_valve
gptkbp:principle thermionic emission
gptkbp:replacedBy transistor
vacuum tube pentode
vacuum tube tetrode
gptkbp:usedFor amplification
detection
switching
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lee_de_Forest
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4