Western Electric type VT3 vacuum triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin base with short pins, brass shell, plastic insulator, tipped T-shaped envelope. "1766" on tube, paper label: "592" - patent dates: 1-15-07, 2-18-08, 4-27-15, 12-19-16. Tyne reports this as a predecessor to the 215A peanut tube, and only a limited number were produced. Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum Tube," pages 280, 293-295.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.323247
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 323247
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm