General Electric / RCA type UV-862 power triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A tube for use in radio transmitting stations. A large glass tube with long copper heat sink on bottom, top cap with two braided leads, and a glass stem with braided lead on each side. Donor’s card reads: “Power triode made for the Radio Corporation of America by the General Electric Company. From the WCAU transmitter at Newtown Square, PA., in 1938. Design dates from July 1928. This is one of the largest tubes made, Used in the push-pull Class C final amplifier of the station’s transmitter. The output of each tube when used with 12000 volts at 5 amperes on the plate, 800 volt negative grid bias, was about 4 kw with 2 kw drive. Water cooled plate may be used at full power up to 1600 kilocycles. Filament 33 volts at 207 amperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_uv862.html.
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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.325318
label: catalog number
content: 325318
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: klystron tube
label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 in x 10 in x 6 in; 152.4 cm x 25.4 cm x 15.24 cm