RCA 5820 image orthicon
date: label: date made
content: ca 1956
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A commercial type 5820 image orthicon (television pickup) tube with 14-pin plastic base, glass T-shaped envelope. Marked: "5820" and "RCA Radiotron / Electron / Tube / Made in U.S.A." Donor’s card reads: “Image orthicon made by the Radio Corporation of America. A television camera tube for outdoor and studio pickup use in which exceptional sensitivity is combined with spectral response approaching that of the human eye. Commercially acceptable pictures can be obtained at incident light levels greater than 10 foot candles. Focusing magnetic, deflection magnetic, useful size, diagonal 1.6 inches.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.324718
label: catalog number
content: 324718
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: television tube
label: Object Name
content: orthicon tube
label: Object Name
content: cathode ray tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 3 in; 38.1 cm x 7.62 cm