General Electric type 8020 half-wave high vacuum rectifier
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 4-pin base with top contact. BT-shaped envelope. Printed on base: "JAN-CG-8020 / Made in U.S.A." Original record notes this as a U.S. Army Signal Corps tube. Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave vacuum rectifier made by the General Electric Company. For applications where high DC voltage and low current is required. Thoriated tungsten filament: 5 volts at 6 amperes. Peak inverse anode voltage 40000, maximum current milliamperes.”
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.324768
label: catalog number
content: 324768
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: 7 1/2 in x 2 in; 19.05 cm x 5.08 cm