Archive for November 16th, 2007
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Happy Birthday Dear Tu-uube!
On this day in 1904 British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invented and patented the two-electrode vacuum-tube rectifier, which he called the oscillation valve. It was also called a thermionic valve, vacuum diode, kenotron, thermionic tube, or Fleming valve. This invention is often considered to have been the beginning of electronics, and without Mr Fleming, we [...]
