Wards type 6C6 "Super Airline" sharp cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 6-pin base with top contact, domed envelope, aquadag coating. Stamped on base: "Wards / Super Airline / Made in U.S.A."; on envelope: "6C6". Unit made for mass retailer Montgomery Ward. Donor’s card reads: “Sharp cutoff pentode, glass type, of unknown manufacture, sold by the Motgomery Ward stores in their Super Airline radio receivers. Used as a biased detector and as a high gain amplifier. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6c6.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.324569
label: catalog number
content: 324569
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: 5 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 3.81 cm