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Amplification Techniques

Quick fact

The first electronic amplifier, the Audion vacuum tube invented by Lee De Forest in 1906, could boost a weak radio signal thousands of times.

Why this is interesting

You turn up the volume on your phone and suddenly hear a faint whisper from a video. How does a tiny electrical signal become loud enough to fill a room?