Ken-Rad type 832-A / VT-286 twin beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A two-piece cylindrical glass envelope, no base, two contacts on top, seven on bottom. Stamped on envelope: “JAN-CKR-832A / Ken / Rad / Made in U.S.A. / VT-286”. Inked on top plare: "K166". Donor’s card reads: “Twin beam power tube made by the Ken-Rad Lamp and Tube Corporation, Owensboro, KY. Similar and interchangeable with [catalog number 324471], except that the elements have been re-designed for better plate dissipation and a small increase in output capacity.”
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.324472
label: catalog number
content: 324472
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 5.715 cm