Coolidge tube

English

Etymology

Introduced by William Coolidge in 1913.

Noun

Coolidge tube (plural Coolidge tubes)

  1. An improvement on the Crookes tube in which the electrons are produced by thermionic effect from a tungsten filament heated by an electric current.

Synonyms
  • hot cathode tube
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