RCA / General Electric type 808 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with side and top contacts, G-shaped envelope. Stamped: "JAN-CRC-808". Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by General Electric for the Radio Corporation of America for transmitting purposes. Plate connection is made to the larger cap on top, grid connection to the smaller cap on the side. Dates from about 1935. Thoriated tungsten filament: 7.5 volts at 4 amperes. Used as a Class C amplifier with 1250 volts at 135 ma on the plate, negative control grid bias 150 volts, this tube sill give 14 watts output.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_808.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.324710
label: catalog number
content: 324710
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 2 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 6.35 cm