Word: multipactor
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would be immensely useful to radio in general, to television in particular. Mr. Farnsworth, who despite his flair for electronics has learned to talk like a tycoon, calls his new tube the multipactor. Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that certain metals hold electrons in suspension on their surfaces in such a way that impacts from outside electrons release them. When the current in the multipactor is turned on, random electrons...
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