Lansdale / Philco type 6D6 remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Lansdale Tube Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A radio frequency pentode for radio frequency and intermediate frequency stages. Plastic 6-pin base with top contact for control grid. Suppressor grid brought out to a separate base pin. Marked: "Philco" and "6D6". Donor’s card reads: “Remote cutoff pentode made by the Lansdale Tube Company for the Philco Corporation. For use as a radio frequency or intermediate frequency stages of radio receivers employing AVC. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6d6.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.324575
label: catalog number
content: 324575
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 3.4925 cm