General Electric type G / CG-886 "Pliotron" triode
date: label: date made
content: 1918
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 3-pin plastic base. Cup-shaped anode. Tipped, S-shaped envelope. Donor card reads: "Triode made by the General Electric Company for the US government during World War 1. For use as a detector on radio receivers. Designed to be interchangeable with the Western Electric VT-1. Mounted on a Navy standard 3-pin base, this tube was designed to operate with a filament current of 1.1 amperes at 3.3 to 3.9 volts. Anode voltage is 18 to 44 volts. About 110,000 of these tubes were delivered to the Signal Corps in 1918." See also: Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum tube," pages 148-154; https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_cg-886.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 Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.324345
label: catalog number
content: 324345
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 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 4.445 cm