Westinghouse "Rectigon Bulb"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Brass medium screw base with glass insulator, C-2 tungsten filament with welded connectors, disc-shaped anode with single connector at top, side-tipped envelope. Stamped: "S-289415". Donor’s card reads: “Rectigon bulb made by Westinghouse for use as a half wave rectifier in 2 to 3 ampere battery chargers, two bulbs used in full wave rectification in 5 or 6 ampere chargers. Used for the same purposes as the Tungar bulbs [catalog numbers 324441, 324442, and 324443]. Used extensively in the 1920s to charge the filament batteries of home radio receivers.”
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.324628
label: catalog number
content: 324628
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm