[Amps] Flash arcs

[Martin Sole]

I vote for valve as well, and anode, and heater. I have always wondered 
about grid since it does seem to suggest what it looks like rather than 
what it does.

I presume from Mike's second call that he meant to refer to himself as 
English not the far more homogeneous and thoroughly imprecise British.

Cheers

Martin HS0ZED G4UQF




Mike K6BR wrote:
> 
> I have always thought that valve was a better a description, but then I am
> British, not European :)
> 
> Mike K6BR G0EYI
> 
> Peter,
> 
> If you ask me, the Europeans are a little smarter in some respects. At least
> they had the sense to call a tube a valve. They named it for the way it
> actually works, not how it looks!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Will
> 
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> On 7/27/06 at 10:41 AM Peter Chadwick wrote:
> 
>> Jim said:
>>> Which "Journal of the IEEE" are we talking about?<
>> Never said a word about the IEEE.
>> In the 1850's there was set up in London a 'Society of Electricians'. In
>> the 1860's or thereabouts, they became the 'Institution of Telegraph
>> Engineers', and at some stage a few years later, they became the
>> 'Institution of Electrical Engineers' or IEE. In 2005 they became the IET.
>> Because title 'IEE' was taken, the American equivalent  was called the
>> AIEE - American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In a similar way, we
>> got the BritIRE - British Institute of Radio Enginers, which amalgamated
>> with the IEE in the late 1980's, in the same way as the AIEE and IRE
>> merged to become IEEE in 1963.
>> So there are learned bodies outside the US.
>> 73
>> Peter G3RZP - Senior Member, IEEE
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