M-O Valve type GT-1-C triode thyratron
name: label: maker
content: Marconi-Osram Valve Co., Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 5-pin (banana pin) base with domed envelope. Stamped on envelope: “GT1C”. Donor card reads: “Triode thyratron, glass type, argon filled, made by the M-O Valve Company Ltd., Brook Green London W6, England. An indirectly heated agon filled triode thyratron whose characteristics are practically independent of the ambient temperature. For use in control circuits, timing circuits, etc. This tube was found floating in the Atlantic ocean in March 1957 by John Pratt who gave it to [me]. Heater type, 4 volts at 1.35 amperes.”
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.324586
label: catalog number
content: 324586
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 4.445 cm