General Electric type GL-8002 triode
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin glass base with heat sink. Stamped: “[GE logo] GL-8002 Made in U.S.A.” on envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the General Electric Company for radio transmitters. Water cooled, this tube will deliver full power up to 150 megacycles. Filament: 16 volts at 38 amps, amplification factor 21.5. For Class C operation: plate 2500 volts at .5 ampere, negative control grid bias 500 volts, for an output of 1 kilowatt.”
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.324622
label: catalog number
content: 324622
label: accession number
content: 252994
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 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm