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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday November 26 2018, @09:10PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday November 26 2018, @09:10PM (#766610) Journal

    Vacuum tubes made amplification POSSIBLE

    I believe you may be referring to the lever, sirrah. A somewhat earlier version of amplification, exchanging one thing for another: distance for applied force (just as a transformer exchanges current for voltage, or vice-versa.)

    :)

    Transistors and Tubes both exchange one force for another: the amplified signal is, somewhat wastefully, cobbled up from the power supplied to the device, while the control is applied elsewhere. Levers, transformers, they work more directly, but kind of do the same thing.

    Levers definitely came first, at least with regard to human tech. I think they probably came before gears, too.

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