Westinghouse type 6AL5 twin diode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1944
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "6AL5 / Westinghouse / Made in U.S.A. / Reliatr[?]”. Donor’s card reads: “Twin diode made by Westinghouse Co. High perveance type used as a detector in FM and television circuits. Especially useful as a radio detector in AC operated FM receivers. Each diode can be used independent of the other or the two sections can be paralleled, or in full wave arrangement. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6al5.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.324875
label: catalog number
content: 324875
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: 1 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 4.445 cm x 1.5875 cm