Myers tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
name: label: maker
content: Myers Radio Tube Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A double-ended triode with plastic caps at either end, tubular envelope. Donor's card reads: "Triode made by E.B. Myers Co. Ltd., 2400 Craig Street, Montreal, Canada, during the triode patent injunction period in the early 1920s. Very much more novel than practical. Made in two filament types, for dry cells and for storage battery operation. Used as a detector or amplifier. This tube plugged into a special mount, much in the manner of a cartridge fuse. ... on the base between the tubes were similar plug-in mounts to accept radio frequency or audio frequency transformers, and detectors, the whole unit being capable of rearrangement by changing the transformers. This tube sold for $5.00 in 1923."
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.324340
label: catalog number
content: 324340
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