logo

CuriousTab

CuriousTab

Discussion


Home General Knowledge Technology Comments

  • Question
  • In which decade were the first successful diode and triode vacuum tubes invented?


  • Options
  • A. 1800s
  • B. 1880s
  • C. 1890s
  • D. 1900s

  • Correct Answer
  • 1900s 

    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.

  • Technology problems


    Search Results


    • 1. Internet Explorer is a...

    • Options
    • A. Any person browsing the net
    • B. Web Browser
    • C. Graphing Package
    • D. News Reader
    • Discuss
    • 2. What kind of data can you send by e-mail?

    • Options
    • A. Audio
    • B. Pictures
    • C. Video
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. Google (www.google.com) is a...

    • Options
    • A. Search Engine
    • B. Number in Math
    • C. Directory of images
    • D. Chat service on the web
    • Discuss
    • 4. Where are the contents of your computer's hard drive indexed?

    • Options
    • A. Yahoo!
    • B. Google
    • C. MSN
    • D. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 5. What are the three main search expressions, or operators, recognized by Boolean logic?

    • Options
    • A. FROM, TO, WHOM
    • B. AND, OR, NOT
    • C. SEARCH, KEYWORD, TEXT
    • D. AND, OR, BUT
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which of these is a search engine?

    • Options
    • A. FTP
    • B. Google
    • C. Archie
    • D. ARPANET
    • Discuss
    • 7. When discussing technology, a hot spot is...

    • Options
    • A. A small overheated area on a CPU
    • B. A place served by public wireless access
    • C. Jargon for an X-rated Web site
    • D. A faulty area in the programming code
    • Discuss
    • 8. "www" stands for...

    • Options
    • A. World Wide Web
    • B. World Wide Wares
    • C. World Wide Wait
    • D. World Wide War
    • Discuss
    • 9. Name the terminals of an FET.

    • Options
    • A. Drain, Gate, Source
    • B. Positive, Negative, Neutral
    • C. Anode, Cathode, Triode
    • D. Emitter, Base, Collector
    • Discuss
    • 10. HTML is used to...

    • Options
    • A. Plot complicated graphs
    • B. Author webpages
    • C. Translate one language into another
    • D. Solve equations
    • Discuss


    Comments

    There are no comments.

Enter a new Comment