RCA type 5820 / C73159 image orthicon
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A modified commercial type 5820 image orthicon (television pickup) tube with 14-pin plastic base, glass T-shaped envelope. Experimental 3" diameter tube mounted in wooden display stand. Paper label: "Form F16B7A / Developmental Type C73159 / Serial No. CR2391-21 / This tube is supplied for Lab[orator]y and / Experimental purposes only[, wi]th no / obligations as to its futur[e m]anufac- / ture unless otherwise [arranged] / Radio Corporation [of Ame]rica / RCA Victor D[ivision] / Lancast[er, PA.]". on glass: "CR2391-21 / DG15694".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Gertrude Maud Goldsmith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.335230
label: catalog number
content: 335230
label: accession number
content: 315406
label: maker number
content: C73159
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cathode ray tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: on stand: 4 5/8 in x 4 in x 17 in; 11.7475 cm x 10.16 cm x 43.18 cm