Valve and Tube

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 16 November 1928, Page 32

Valve and Tube

AUMosT every radio enthusiast. is " (aware that the Americans use the word "tube" where we use "valve." The latter term is, however, considered to be the most appropriate and there is a tendency for it to be generally adopted. With respect to this the editor of the New York "Popular Radio," who has made the sub- | stitution, says — ; F "After having received a number of. letters questioning the license we have taken in using the term ‘valve’ in place of ‘tube,’ we feel constrained to say something in defence of this policy. .

"One slightly irate reader complains with some feeling that we have been ‘high-hatting’ him. ‘Popular Radio’ obviously has no! interest in ‘high-hat-ting’ its readers; but it does have a sincere desire to- keep its terminology as scientifically ‘accurate as possible, and, following the growing tendency of the -radio engineering profession, it has forsaken .the ambiguous ferm | ‘tube’ for the more descriptive one of ‘valve.’ . , | "After all, a tube may mean 4 container for toothpaste or the Hudson River. Vehicular: Tunnel."