RCA type 801A triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with domed envelope. Stamped on base: RCA logo. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Radio Corporation of America. A high vacuum tube used as a radio frequency amplifier and oscillator at frequencies up to 60 megacycles. Used in the early police radio in West Chester [PA] in the 1920s as the output tube in the AM mobile units. Similar to the VT-62 tubes [catalog numbers 324640 and 324641]. Filament type: 7.5 volts at 1.25 amperes; 500 volts at 55 milliamperes on the plate; 45 volt negative control grid bias, average output as a Class C amplifier 18 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_801a.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.324635
label: catalog number
content: 324635
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm