Myers experimental gaseous diode
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Myers Radio Tube Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Four-pin plastic base with tipped S-shaped envelope. Donor card reads: "Triode made by Elman B. Myers in the old Music-Master laboratories in Betzwood, Pa., during the winter of 1926-27. Given to [me] by Fred Milliken, who worked on their construction with Myers. This tube appears to be a gaseous diode, or an oxide type dry rectifier enclosed in an evacuated envelope. It is possibly an attempt to improve on the Raytheon type "B" and "BH" gaseous rectifiers [catalog numbers 324411 and 324412]. No filament is apparent." The manufacturer of this tube in not clear - E.B. Myers Co. Ltd. or Myers Radio Tube Corp., Cleveland, or Elman Myers himself. See Tyne, Saga of the Vacuum Tube," pages 332-336.
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.324364
label: catalog number
content: 324364
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm