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单词 nixie tube
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Nixie tube
More fully Nixie tube, Nixie indicator, etc. An indicator used in the displays of scientific instruments, consisting of a gas-discharge tube containing ten wire cathodes bent into the shapes of the numerals 0 to 9.A proprietary name in the U.S.
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1957 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Sept. tm17/1 Nixie... For electronic indicator tubes.
1971 Electronic Design 19 24/1 Of the many challenges to the Nixie tube for the title of King of digital readout devices, the strongest is being mounted by the light-emitting diode.
1971 Electronic Design 19 53 The Nixie's early price was about $16 in quantities of 500.
1973 Sci. Amer. June 66/2 The name Nixie came about accidentally. A draftsman making drawings of the device labeled it nix i, for numeric indicator experimental No. 1. His colleagues began referring to it as ‘Nixie’, and the name stuck.
1987 J. Millman & A. Grabel Microelectronics (ed. 2) vii. 282 A Nixie indicator is a cold-cathode gas-discharge tube with a single anode and 10 cathodes, which are wires shaped in the form of numerals 0 to 9.
1988 Plays Internat. Aug. 34/3 A sophisticated, sterilised laboratory, where every flashing Nixie-tube is an exterior sign of success.
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