General Electric type 6-U-8-A triode-pentode converter
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 9-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "6678”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode-pentode converter made by General Electric Company. Used as combination mixer and oscillator tube in television receivers utilizing an intermediate frequency in the order of 40 megacycles. Controlled heater warm-up time. Heater: 6.3 volts at .45 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6u8a.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.324839
label: catalog number
content: 324839
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode, pentode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 5.715 cm x 1.905 cm