General Electric experimental "Pliotron" triode
date: label: date made
content: 1919
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin brass base, mica-coated insulator, cone-shaped anode, tipped S-shaped envelope. Stamped on envelope: "98"; paper label written: "GE-VT12". According to Gerald Tyne ("Saga of the Vacuum Tube," page 153) this is not a VT-12 but rather an experimental tube made in 1919. The internal structure does not match images of VT-12s, so it appears the paper label is in error.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Susan Horle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.314056
label: catalog number
content: 314056
label: accession number
content: 195337
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: 4 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 4.445 cm