Westinghouse type WL-833-A triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A glass 2-pin base with two top contacts, bottom tipped cylindrical glass envelope. Stamped: “Westinghouse / [W logo] WL-833-A [W logo] / Made in U.S.A.”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Westinghouse Company for use as a radio frequency amplifier, oscillator and as a Class B modulator. Thoriated tungsten filament: 10 volts at 10 amperes. For Class C plate modulated amplifier radio frequency service: 3000 volts at 355 milliamperes on the plate; 240 volt negative control grid bias, 26 watts of drive, for an output of approximately 800 watts. A widely used tube for more than 25 years, and ]as of 1961] is still in use in many stations.”
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.324518
label: catalog number
content: 324518
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: 8 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 11.43 cm