Western Electric type VT2 radio tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1917
label: date made
content: ca. 1918
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: VT-2 tube with envelope. Audion is being used generically here. Brass 4-pin base (gold tips on tines) with bakelite insulator, two plates and grids with one emitter. Tipped G-shaped envelope. Stamped: "519338" on the envelope. Reference: Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum Tube" 100-103, 286-287; https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_vt2.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 Theodore W. Case
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.309155.01
label: catalog number
content: 309155.01
label: accession number
content: 63700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: triode
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 2.25 cm; 27.94 cm x 7/8 in