General Electric type 6L6 beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with cylindrical metal shell. Stamped on shell: “6L6 / Licensed / as stated / on carton”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by the General Electric Company in the early 1930s. Metal type designed for use in the output stage of audio equipment, especially units designed to have an ample reserve of power delivery ability. Also used by amateurs as oscillators and radio frequency amplifiers in low powered transmitters. Heat type [filament]: 6.3 volts at .9 ampere. Two tubes used in “push-pull” Class AB1 with 450 volts on the plate and screen; 37 volts negative control grid bias will give 55 watts audio output.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6l6.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.324474
label: catalog number
content: 324474
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm