TM (triode)

The TM (from French: Telegraphie Militaire, also marketed as TM Fotos and TM Metal) was a triode vacuum tube for amplification and demodulation of radio signals, manufactured in France from November 1915 to around 1935. The TM, developed for the French Army, became the standard small-signal radio tube of the Allies of World War I, and the first truly mass-produced vacuum tube. Wartime production in France is estimated at no less than 1.1 million units. Copies and derivatives of the TM were mass-produced in the United Kingdom as Type R, in the Netherlands as Type E, in the United States and in Soviet Russia as P-5 and П7.

TM (triode)

The TM (from French: Telegraphie Militaire, also marketed as TM Fotos and TM Metal) was a triode vacuum tube for amplification and demodulation of radio signals, manufactured in France from November 1915 to around 1935. The TM, developed for the French Army, became the standard small-signal radio tube of the Allies of World War I, and the first truly mass-produced vacuum tube. Wartime production in France is estimated at no less than 1.1 million units. Copies and derivatives of the TM were mass-produced in the United Kingdom as Type R, in the Netherlands as Type E, in the United States and in Soviet Russia as P-5 and П7.