Raytheon type 6AC7 sharp cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 8-pin base with center post, T-shaped metal envelope. Stamped: “Raytheon / Made in U.S.A. / 1852”. Donor’s card reads: “Sharp cutoff pentode made by the Raytheon Mfg. Co. Metal tube used in the radio frequency and intermediate frequency stages of picture amplifiers in television receivers. Also used as a mixer or oscillator in low frequency applications. Heater: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6ac7.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.324668
label: catalog number
content: 324668
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 3.175 cm