The thermionic vacuum tube and its applications (1920)
Van der Bijl, Hendrik Johannes, 1887- · New York McGraw-Hill Book, Co · leaf 138
his adjustment the valve falls far short of thethree-electrode device which has now completely superseded itas a radio detector. The discussion of the valve as a radio detec-tor will therefore be limited to the elementary theoretical considera-tions given above, which are generally applicable and… … Anode Vol+^Fig. 42. currents for high-power purposes, and has been used successfullyfor the production of unidirectional currents at high-voltages. Bya proper arrangement of circuits it can also be used to convertalternating current into steady direct current. When this deviceis used for rectifying…
Telegraph, Wireless
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