RCA type 8008 "Radiotron" mercury vapor rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A half-wave, mercury vapor rectifier. Plastic 4-pin base with top contact, T-shaped envelope. Mercury deposits on inner bulb wall. Stamped on base: "RCA / Radiotron". Stamped on envelope "8008". Donor card reads: "Half wave mercury vapor rectifier made by the Radio Corporation of America. Coated filament type, used in the power suppliy of radio transmitters and industrial equipment. Filament: 5 volts at 7.5 amperes. Maximum inverse peak plate voltage: 10000. Except for the base, which is the “Super-Jumbo it is electrically the same as the 872-A rectifier [catalog number 324688].
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.324495
label: catalog number
content: 324495
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 22.225 cm x 5.715 cm