Taylor type TZ-20 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Tubes Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with top contact, ceramic insulator, S-shaped envelope. Stamped in envelope: “Taylor / Tube / Made in U.S.A. / TZ 20”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by Taylor Tubes Inc., of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1930s. For modulator use in low powered amateur radio telephones. Filament: 7.5 volts at 1.75 amperes. Used as a Class B modulator with 800 volts on the plate, zero grid bias, the tube will deliver about 35 watts audio to a properly matched load.”
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.325009
label: catalog number
content: 325009
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 5.715 cm