They finally settled on a solution using two tubes, a thyratron and a pentode, which produced 1 �s pulses at 15 kW . GEC preferred a design using a single thyratron, but this was eventually abandoned in favour of the AMRE design.
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They finally settled on a solution using two tubes, a thyratron and a pentode, which produced 1 �s pulses at 15 kW . GEC preferred a design using a single thyratron, but this was eventually abandoned in favour of the AMRE design.
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Variations of the thyratron idea are the krytron, the sprytron, the ignitron, and the triggered spark gap, all still used today in special applications, such as nuclear weapons ( krytron ) and AC / DC-AC power transmission ( ignitron ).
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The idea of applying electronic counting to calculating mechanisms occurred to him when reading of a thyratron ( gas-filled tube ) counting ring of five places ( 5 digits, not five orders ) developed by British scientist Dr C . E . Wynn-Williams.
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:: : Positive ions ( as well as electrons ) flow between the electrodes in a thyratron . ( Of course, few people have even heard this word in this solid-state-electronic day and age . ) talk ) 06 : 13, 4 November 2011 ( UTC)
