English: High power ignitron rectifiers, 1945. The ignitron was a mercury filled device used as switches and rectifiers in high power industrial processes. A trigger pulse on the firing electrode starts a mercury arc between the carbon anode and the mercury pool cathode.
This 1945 issue of Radio News magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1973. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1973 show no renewal entries for Radio News. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
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