General Electric type 6-BQ-6-GA / 6-CU-6 beam power tube
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with center post, top contact, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: "General Electric / Made in U.S.A. / 6BQ6/GA”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by General Electric Company. Glass octal type used as a horizontal deflector amplifier in television receivers. A modernized version of the type 6-BQ-6-GT [catalog number 324795]. Heater 6.3 volts at 1.2 amperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6bq6ga.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.325217
label: catalog number
content: 325217
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 3.175 cm