Important Inventions and Discoveries in World » Exercise – 1
81. In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?
(a) 1800s
(b) 1880s
(c) 1890s
(d) 1900s
Explanation
Explanation : In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invented the first practical electron tube called the ‘Fleming Valve’, which is a diode rectifier. In 1906, Lee de Forest invented the audion later called the triode, which provided signal amplification.
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