Westinghouse type 38166 half-wave mercury vapor rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1942
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 4-pin base, top contact, S-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave mercury vapor rectifier made by Westinghouse for the US government during World War II. This tube is the Westinghouse version of the conventional types 866 and 866-A made by various manufacturers. This tube has some mechanical variations but is electrically interchangeable with the 866 and 866-A. Coated filament type: 2.5 volts at 5 amperes. Maximum peak inverse plate voltage 10000, maximum plate current .5 ampere.”
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.324648
label: catalog number
content: 324648
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 5.715 cm