Sylvania type 6H6GT twin diode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Stamped on envelope: "6H6 / GT". Donor’s card reads: “ Twin diode made by the Sylvania Corporation. Glass octal type used as detectors, low voltage rectifiers, and AVC tube. Except for a common heater, the two diode units are independent of each other. Similar to and interchangeable with the metal type 6-H-6 tube [catalog number 324561]. Heater: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6h6gt.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325151
label: catalog number
content: 325151
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm