Vacuum Tube Amplifiers

764 Pages·1998·32.4 MB·English

VACUUM TUBE AMPLIFIERS
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES
Board of Editors
Louts h’. RIDENOUR,Editor-in-Chiej
GEORGEB. COLLINS,Deputy Editor-in- Chiej
BRITTONCHANCE,S. A. GOUDSMIT,R. G. HERB,HUBERTM. JAMES,JULIANK. KNIPP,
JAMESL. LAWSONL,EONB.LINFORDC,AROLG.MONTGOMERY,C. ~EWTON, ALBERT
M. STONE,Lams A. TURNER,GEORGEE. VALLEY,JR., HERBERTH. WHEATON
1. RADARSYSTEMENGINEERING—h?idenouT
2. RADARAIDSTONavigation—Hall
3. RADARBmcoNs-Roberts
4. LORAN—P;f?TCe,McKenzie, and Woodward
& ~UI.SEGENERAToRs~lasoe andLebacqz
6. MICROWAVEMAGNETRONS—COlk’nS
7. KLYSTRONSANDMICROWAVEl’R1oDEs-Hansilton, Knipp, and Kuper
8. ~RINCIPLESOFMICROWAVECIRcuITs—Montgomery, Dike, and Purcell
9. MICROWAVETRANSWSSIONCIRcuIm-12agan
10. WAVEGUIDEHANDBooK—MarcuVilz
11. TECNNIQUEOFMICROWAVEMEASUREMENTS—M~@O?7W?f/
12. MICROWAVEANTENNATHEORYAND DEslGN—SikeT
13. PROPAGATIONOFSHOBTRADIOWAvEs—KerT
14. MICROWAVEDUPLEXERS—S??tuzz~nand Mo?,tgomery
15. CRYSTALRECTIFIERS—2’orreyand Whitmer
16. MICROWAVEMrxmts-hund
17. COMPONENTSHmImooIc—Blackburn
18 VACUUbITUBEAbfPLIFIERS-Val/e~ and Walbnun
19. WAVEFORbIS-Chan03, Hughesj MacNichol, Sayre, and Walk’ama
20. ELECTRONICTI!JEMEAsuREbfENTs-Chance, Hu18izer, Mac.Vichol,
and Williams
21. ELECTRONIC1NsTRuL4ENTs+eenwood, Holdam, and MacRae
22. CATHODERAY TUBEDIsPLAYs—So/ler, Slam, and Valley
23. MICROWAVEREcENERs—Van Voorhis
24. THRESHOLDSIQNALS—LaWSOnand Uhlenbeck
25. THEORYOFSERVOMECHANIshIS-Jame8,Nichols, and Phillips
26. RADARSCANNERSANDRADohIEs-Cady, Karelitz, and Turner
27. COIWPUTINGMECHANISMSANDLINKAGES—&JObOdQ
28. ~NDEx—H8nneu
VACUUM TUBE AMPLIFIERS
Edited by
GEOR.GE 13.VALLEY, JR.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
HENRY WALLMAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESE.4RCH AN-D DEVELOPMENT
NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH COMMITTEE
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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
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HENRYWALLMAN

Foreword
THEtremendous research and development effort that went into the
development of radar and related techniques during World War II
resulted not only in hundreds of radar sets for military (and some for
possible peacetime) use but also in a great body of information and new
techniques in the electronics and high-frequency fields. Because this
basicmaterial may be of great value to science and engineering, it seemed
most important to publish it as soon as security permitted.
The Radiation Laboratory of MIT, which operated under the super-
vision of the National Defense Research Committee, undertook the great
tssk ofpreparing these volumes. The work described herein, however, is
the collective result of work done at many laboratories, Army, Navy,
university, and industrial, both in this country and in England, Canada,
andother Dominions.
The Radiation Laboratory, once its proposals were approved and
finances provided by the Office of Scientific Research and Development,
choseLouis N. Ridenour as Editor-in-Chief to lead and direct the entire
project. An editorial staff was then selected of those best qualified for
thistype oftask. Finally the authors for thevarious volumes orchapters
orsections were chosen from among those experts who were intimately
familiar with the various fields, and who were able and willing to write
the summaries of them. This entire staff agreed to remain at work at
MIT for sixmonths or more after the work of the Radiation Laboratory
wascomplete. These volumes stand as a monument to this group.
These volumes serve as a memorial to the unnamed hundreds and
thousands of other scientists, engineers, and others who actually carried
ontheresearch, development, and engineering work the results of which
arehereindescribed. There weresomany involved inthis work and they
workedso closely together even though often in widely separated labora-
toriesthat itisimpossible to name oreven to know those who contributed
toaparticular idea ordevelopment. Only certain oneswho wrote reports
orarticles have even been mentioned. But to all those who contributed
inanyway to this great cooperative development enterprise, both in this
country and in England, these volumes are dedicated.
L. A. DUBRIDGE.
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