Western Electric type 310A vacuum tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A pentode with a 6-pin plastic base and glass envelope. Indirectly heated cathode. Heater voltage: 10, AC or DC; heater current: 0.32 amperes; plate voltage: 135 or 180.
label: Description (Brief)
content: "A voltage-amplifier, suppressor-grid pentode with indirectly heated cathode. This tube is intended primarily for use as an audio, or carrier and radio-frequency voltage amplifier, oscillator, or modulator. The connection for the suppressor grid has been brought out to an external terminal, thus making the tube more flexible in its applications." Reference: Western Electric 310A data sheet: https://www.westernelectric.com/s/310A.pdf.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.322495
label: catalog number
content: 322495
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Object Name
content: Radio Receiving Tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 3.81 cm