Examples of vacuum tube in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For now, audio vacuum tube buyers are limited to the output of EHX and JJ, the latter of which—a far smaller operation than EHX—has a reported lead time of at least 18 months for new orders. — David Meyer, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2022 To remove the vacuum tube, grip the large plastic lugs molded into the tube and twist it off. — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022 The printing press, the steam engine, antibiotics, the automobile, the vacuum tube, silicon chips, electricity, the birth-control pill, anesthesia, the refrigerator. — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2022 At the center of the MA-1 was the Hughes Digitair, the first digital airborne computer, an 18-bit, one's-complement vacuum tube system with 2K words of core memory. — Frank O’brien, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022 The company based in Roanoke, Virginia, specializes in electronics for homeland security and says its next-generation binoculars infuse the lastest in connectivity with old vacuum tube technology found in black-and-white TVs. — Washington Post, 24 May 2021 Hyperloops are super-speed transit systems that move passengers seated within a capsule through a ground-level vacuum tube at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour, reports Anamaria Silic for Discover. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021 The Hyperloop is a new form of transportation similar to the high-speed maglev trains in Japan, South Korea, and China, but has one key difference — the trains travel in a near-complete vacuum tube. — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 16 Dec. 2020 It is designed to send a vehicle through a vacuum tube at speeds up to 600 miles per hour. — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 9 Nov. 2020 See More

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