Bendix type 5839 full-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Bendix
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Full-wave vacuum rectifier made by Bendix Corp., Red Bank Division, Eatontown, NJ, for the US government during World War II. Glass octal type, heater: 26.5 volts at .255 ampere. 1375 volts maximum inverse peak anode voltage, maximum anode current 270 milliamperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5839.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.324708
label: catalog number
content: 324708
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: 3 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 8.255 cm x 3.4925 cm