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traveling-wave tube

device used to amplify radio frequency signals in the microwave spectrum
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traveling-wave tube

Summary

traveling-wave tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (153 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • traveling-wave tube is credited with the discovery of Rudolf Kompfner[2].
  • traveling-wave tube's image is recorded as TWTA.png[3].
  • traveling-wave tube's subclass of is recorded as vacuum tube[4].
  • traveling-wave tube's subclass of is recorded as electronic amplifier[5].
  • traveling-wave tube's Commons category is recorded as Traveling-wave tubes[6].
  • traveling-wave tube's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02drh2[7].
  • traveling-wave tube's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8].
  • traveling-wave tube's described by source is recorded as Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia[9].
  • traveling-wave tube's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/traveling-wave-tube[10].
  • traveling-wave tube's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 142803427[11].
  • traveling-wave tube's MetaSat ID is recorded as travelingWaveTube[12].
  • traveling-wave tube's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C142803427[13].
  • traveling-wave tube's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 125369[14].
  • traveling-wave tube's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 37670[15].

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Works and Contributions

traveling-wave tube is credited with the discovery of Rudolf Kompfner[2].

Why It Matters

traveling-wave tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (153 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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