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Triode

A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or thermionic valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode).

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Component type
Active
Invention year
1908
Inventor
Lee de Forest
Pin names
Plate, grid, and cathode
Working principle‍
Thermionic emission

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Comparison of ECC81, ECC82, and ECC83

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Characteristics and load lines

Use in guitar amplifiers

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Triode

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Edges101
Triples139
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019608
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Triode

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related to Invention · 32
Triode → American, American Telephone, Audion, Audions, Austrian, By, De Forest, De Forest's Audion, De Forest's Audions, First World War, Forest, General Electric, Harold Arnold, Irving Langmuir, January, John Ambrose Fleming, Lee, Lieben, Lieben's, Like
related to Wider adoption · 16
Triode → AM, Amplifying, Audion, Bell, Bell Telephone, Bernardus Dominicus Hubertus Tellegen, During World War, Gilles Holst, January, Other, The, This, TM, Triodes, Vacuum, Walter Schottky
has application · 8
Triode → High-power, Large, Many, RF, Several, Specialized, The, Triodes
related to Lighthouse tubes · 8
Triode → As, At, Smaller, The, These, This, Transit, UHF
related to Dependence of amplification factor on structure · 6
Triode → Differences, ECC81, ECC82, ECC83, Miller, The
related to Characteristics and load lines · 5
Triode → Ia, The, These, Va, Vg
related to Construction · 5
Triode → All, IBM, Since, The, These
related to High-power triodes · 5
Triode → As, High-power, The, These, Tubes
related to Low power triodes · 5
Triode → Inside, It, Low, The, This
related to Operation · 5
Triode → In, Richardson’s, The, Under, When

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grid plate cathode tube current voltage tubes triodes used load radio vacuum anode power amplification filament line curves factor low

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TriodeComponent typeActive1.00infobox
TriodeInvention year19081.00infobox
TriodeInventorLee de Forest1.00infobox
TriodePin namesPlate, grid, and cathode1.00infobox
TriodeWorking principle‍Thermionic emission1.00infobox
Triodeis aelectronic amplifying vacuum tube0.90text
the tetrodeinstance ofthe triode was the first practical electronic amplifier and the ancestor of other types of vacuum tubes0.80text
pentodeinstance ofthe triode was the first practical electronic amplifier and the ancestor of other types of vacuum tubes0.80text
radiosinstance ofTriodes were widely used in consumer electronics devices0.80text
televisions until the 1970sinstance ofTriodes were widely used in consumer electronics devices0.80text
when transistors replaced theminstance ofTriodes were widely used in consumer electronics devices0.80text
radiosinstance ofwhich remedied some of the shortcomings of the triode detailed below.The triode was very widely used in consumer electronics0.80text

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