Tetrode
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A tetrode is a vacuum tube having four active electrodes. The four electrodes in order from the centre are: a thermionic cathode, first and second grids, and a plate. There are several varieties of tetrodes, the most common being the screen-grid tube and the beam tetrode. In screen-grid tubes and beam tetrodes, the first grid is the control grid and the second grid is the screen grid. In other tetrodes one of the grids is a control grid, while the other may have a variety of functions.
4-1000A 1 KW radial beam power tetrode in an amateur radio transmitter
Tetrode of the Bi-Grid Valve type
Circuit using bi-grid tetrode oscillator as AM transmitter. H is a source of high voltage.
View of the interior of an Osram S23 screen grid valve. In this valve the anode is in the form of two flat plates. The wires of the screen grid can also be seen. The anode connection is at the top of the envelope to minimise anode-grid capacitance
Vacuum tube
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A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve, or tube, is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
Later thermionic vacuum tubes, mostly miniature style, some with top cap connections for higher voltages
Hot tubes in an audio power amplifier, emitting their distinctive red-orange glow
Illustration representing a primitive triode vacuum tube and the polarities of the typical DC operating potentials. Not shown are the impedances (resistors or inductors) that would be included in series with the C and B voltage sources.
Radio station signal generator with vacuum tubes