Today, sick in bed, I stumbled across this video from the University of Nottingham that perked me up a bit.
Great to see a such a clear and historical presentation.
8 and a half minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCs7YiF ... re=related
This is an English professor, so:
Anode = Plate
Valve = Tube
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Totally love it! That was the age. We know 95% of how tubes work; the other 5% we will never know because the folks behind the scenes of that video moved on to SS.