General Electrric type 1B3GT diode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1947
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin plastic base with center post, top cap, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Diode made by the General Electric Company. A high vacuum tube used for the high voltage supply in television receivers. Designed to operate at relatively high inverse peak voltages over a considerable range of supply voltage frequencies. It is intended to supply the required high voltages for the cathode ray tube in television receivers. Coated filament type will supply up to 26000 volts DC.” Ca 1947. Reference: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_1b3gt.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.324473
label: catalog number
content: 324473
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: 4 in x 1 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 3.175 cm