Translite type VT-42-M mercury vapor rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A metal 4-pin base with top contact, ceramic insulators, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Mercury vapor rectifier made by Translite, Inc., for US government use during World War II. Electrically identical with the type 872-A [catalog number 324688]. Coated filament: 5 volts at 7.5 amperes. Maximum peak inverse voltage: 10000, maximum current: 1.25 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.324624
label: catalog number
content: 324624
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 5.715 cm