In his electro-mysticism, the triode was as basic as the cross in Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

When I was a teenager learning about vacuum tubes, bias was a voltage applied to the grid of a triode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Hanson Video, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

When I was a teenager bias was a voltage applied to the grid of a triode (a kind of vacuum tube): a necessary thing, not a bad thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here is Wisdom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Adding one element to the diode makes it a triode, an extremely useful object that eventually would lead to electronics and computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coopting cooption - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The present author has performed consulting work on one device which utilizes sound to convert the human body to a PPCM-triode and applies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

He had been hoping that his triode tube would produce amplification of the signal, something highly desirable given the feebly transmitted radio signals of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Technology] Reference

In effect, the Earth has been converted into a giant self-powered triode, and now any distant input site will function as both a grid input and a plate collector for the triode Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Then, almost simultaneously in 1911 and 1912, several engineers—de Forest among them—did manage to combine the triode with other existing circuit components to produce a workable amplifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Technology] Reference

Note that the entire process can be compared to a triode: the signal wave constitutes the grid signal, the pump wave constitutes the plate voltage, and the nucleus of the atom in the dielectric provides the self-powered cathode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

It is little wonder therefore that progress in this branch of physiology has always been governed by the progress of physical technique and that the advent of the triode valve amplifier has opened up new lines in this, as in so many other fields of research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Adrian - Nobel Lecture] Reference

We will attempt to produce a transformation of the Earth into a special triode, so that we may then introduce a relatively small "grid signal" and gate highly amplified energy from the Earth's interior self-powered cathode to an external plate load on the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Graphical Symbol in full simplified diode, indirectly heated duodiode, indirectly heated or triode, indirectly heated or duotriode with separated cathodes, indirectly heated, heating filament with central tapping, internal screening of the system tetrode pentode, suppressor grid connected with cathode triode - pentode triode - heptode (according to the circuit, the systems may be drawn left-and-right reversed) 1.10.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Selected Graphical Symbols of Electrotechnology] Reference

England, 1904; (triode amplifying tube) Lee de Forest.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The 'MK2-T' utilises two Sovtek 12AX7-double triode tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

It uses a 12AF6 / BD6 remote-cutoff pentode and a 12AV7 dual triode.    From Wordnik.com.  [MATRIXSYNTH] Reference

She had been labeled as a vacuum triode in a previous edition of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Later, when the control grid element was added to create the triode tube, it was logically assigned the letter "C.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Both two-channel amps feature a Normal channel and a Tube Pre channel, complete with a 12AU7 dual triode vacuum tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [MusicDish e-Journal] Reference

The internal design of the MP66 includes two ECC82 triode, a Lundahl LL1538 input transformer and a Cinemag output transformer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gearwire -] Reference

The preamp's advanced hybrid transistor/tube design utilizes a dual triode tube design for the purest music reproduction capabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference

In triode mode, of course, the screen grids of the KT88 pentode tubes are tied to the plates, and the tubes operate as indirectly heated triodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stereophile RSS Feed] Reference

The Perception 820 Tube is poised as an affordable flagship model, featuring ECC 83 dual-triode circuitry for a rich, smooth sound with classical tube warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcast Engineering RSS Feed] Reference

And its latest is a doozy. triode tube Valhalla, the Lyr sticks with the company's Norse naming conventions: Lyr is the name of Menglad's hall in Jotunheim, the land of the giants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The highly anticipated Oceanus LT-381 features a newly designed large dual-diaphragm capsule, NOS military grade pentode input, transformer-less triode output, and variable omni, cardioid and figure-8 polar patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harmony Central] Reference

John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945) devised the diode thermionic valve (radio tube); Lee de Forest (1873–1961) invented the Audion (1906), a three-electrode vacuum tube (triode amplifier), thereby providing the basis for the development of electronics.    From Wordnik.com.  [1904] Reference

Capable of driving any loudspeaker, the Aelius is a remarkable product using an outstanding hybrid design that combines the sonic purity of single-ended triode (SET) amplification with the power of push-pull amplification, all with unmatched build quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [HomeToys News] Reference

In a slightly different circuit combination the triode could be used as a relay: it could act as a switch that could be opened or closed by a small control voltage on the triode’s grid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Technology] Reference

807 triode Tesla coil which has a nice spot frequency of about 760 kilohertz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

The MP66 is a dual-triode-valve, class A, single-ended preamp with a sound "inspired by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gearwire -] Reference

20-watts per channel in triode mode or 40-watts per channel in ultralinear mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electronic House Recently Filed] Reference

Reply triode says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yer face… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference