Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferranti valve

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The result was delete. czar 06:06, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ferranti valve

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As far as I can determine in my searching, a "Farranti valve" is a vacuum tube or valve made by Farranti, except that a "Hopkinson–Farranti valve" is some kind of check valve used for boilers. I am unable to verify the claims of the article. Mangoe (talk) 02:40, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The correct spelling is "Ferranti". Ferranti were a noted producer of electronic components. The component in question is a guard ring diode, primarily used in educational demonstrations as a way of demonstrating the magnetron approach to assessing the charge-to-mass ratio of the electron. The physics looks right to me, but I'm not a specialist. However, this link seems to support this. I don't think this particular valve merits an article in its own right - it seems reasonably clear that other equipment could be used in the educational environment, and there's no obvious reason to impute notability to a particular electronic component, even an interesting one like this - but it would be useful if the magnetron method for assessing the electron's charge-to-mass ratio were better covered in Mass-to-charge_ratio. Accordingly, I suggest we Delete, but request a suitable specialist to expand this section of the relevant article appropriately. RomanSpa (talk) 07:40, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:44, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.