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One of the areas that particularly attracted the interest of experimenters in the nineteenth century was the behavior of evacuated glass tubes when excited by electricity. As the characteristics change with the amount of gas remaining in the equipment, the whole experiment depended on how well the air could be removed. Without the development of efficient vacuum pumps electronics would never have got started.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas A. Edison
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Williams, J.B. (2017). Missed Opportunities: The Beginnings of Electronics. In: The Electronics Revolution. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5_2
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