General Electric type 5879 sharp cutoff pentode
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 9-pin glass based miniature tube with tip on top. Stamped: “5879”. Donor’s card reads: “Sharp cutoff pentode made by the General Electric Company. For applications requiring reduced leakage noises, microphonics, and hum. Suitable for use in the input stage of medium gain frequency amplifiers. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .15 ampere. Plate and screen operate at 250 volts with a 3 volt negative control grid bias.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5879.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.324991
label: catalog number
content: 324991
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 2.2225 cm