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The 36 pages that link to Vacuum tube, each with the reason it gives.

• ENIACRelated: Vacuum tubes served as ENIAC’s high-speed electronic switches.

• DistortionRelated: Tube amplifier stages can saturate gradually, producing a familiar form of distortion.

• Guitar amplifierRelated: Tube amplifiers use these devices in their preamp or power stages.

• Atanasoff–Berry computerRelated: Vacuum tubes performed the machine’s electronic logical operations.

• J. Presper EckertRelated: Vacuum tubes formed the switching elements in the ENIAC’s electronic arithmetic circuits.

• Philipp LenardRelated: Lenard used vacuum tubes to generate and study cathode rays.

• Tommy FlowersRelated: Flowers relied on vacuum tubes as Colossus's switching elements, contrary to fears that they would fail in large numbers.

• ColossusRelated: Thousands of vacuum tubes enabled Colossus to count and compare signals electronically.

• History of radioRelated: Vacuum tubes made radio receivers more sensitive and transmitters capable of continuous waves.

• John Vincent AtanasoffRelated: Vacuum tubes performed the ABC’s electronic computation and logic.

• Electronic circuitRelated: Vacuum tubes enabled early amplification and switching before transistors became practical.

• History of computing hardwareRelated: Vacuum tubes enabled fast electronic switching in early computers.

• Vacuum electronicsRelated: Its early development links thermionic emission to practical radio amplification.