General Electric type VT-62 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with domed envelope. Stamped on base: “SC / 63 / A”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the General Electric Company for the US government during World War II. Electrically similar to the 801 tube [catalog number 324639] and to the VT-62 [catalog number 324640]. This tube has a low loss molded base and a carbon plate. [324640] has a porcelain base and metal plate while [324639] has a molded base and a metal plate. A high vacuum tube used in small transmitters as radio frequency amplifiers and oscillators. For Class C operation: 500 volts at 55 milliamperes on the plate; negative control grid bias, 45 volts; output 19 watts.”
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.324641
label: catalog number
content: 324641
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: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm