Raytheon type CRP-72 half-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with top contact, ceramic insulator, T-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: "AU3910". Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave vacuum rectifier made by Raytheon for the US government during World War II. Used principally to supply anode voltage to cathode ray tubes used in radar equipment. Filament 2.5 volts at 3 amperes. Maximum plate peak voltage 20000, maximum DC current 30 milliamps.”
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.325209
label: catalog number
content: 325209
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 3.81 cm