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Re: 833a Sockets

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Subject: Re: 833a Sockets
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:12:29 -0600
Resent-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 19:13:42 -0600
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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Adam Horden" <ath-at-blueyonder.co.uk>
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > Valves is just a nickname given to tubes etc. I honnestly dont know why that
 > is. Maybee its just a UK thing?
 >
 > Adam

	It seems to be now, but the term was used in this country in very early
days.  Think that the "Fleming valve" (diode rectifier) may have been
the original "tube" which went by that name and it just hung around.

Ed

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