[Amps] valves v. tubes - was flash arcs

[Peter Chadwick]

It's 'lampe' in French, though - which, certainly in the case of things like the French R valve, it looked like - in more ways than one  with  bright emitter valves. And phosphorous getters.

The English are a pretty mongrel lot  - Saxon, Jute, Viking, Celt, Italian, Norman and a few others all having come here. So you can maybe see why Cornish etc get upset at being called English, although the minorities never turn up their noses at getting cash!
At the moment though, Noel Coward seems right - 'Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.
73
Peter G3RZP