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n. A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible
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A triode is an electronic amplifying vacuum tube (or valve in British English) consisting of three electrodes inside an evacuated glass envelope: a heated filament or cathode , a grid , and a plate ( anode ). Invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest by adding ...
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The breast insignia varied-a cogwheel, a triode circuit diagram, an integral dx, conventionalized waves and gram sheafs and thunderbolts-the heraldry of a government which at least nominally emphasized technology.
Those are where the black-hole triodes are generated that give you the I/O ports.