Western Electric type 215A "peanut" tube with Nothern Electric type R40 socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1922
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-contact plastic bayonet base with side pin, tipped T-shaped envelope, cylindrical shield. Triode mounted in a surface-mount type R-40 Northern Electric tube socket. Socket label reads: "N.E.Co. Limited / Pat. 1922". Vacuum triode, WE-215-A, "All purpose radio 'peanut' tube of 1918. Western Electric type 215-A." "311567" written on side. "Western Electric "N" or peanut tube as used in U.S. Signal Corp. and Navy equipment, just after the war and in early Western Electric superhet. receivers and [detects]. This is probably the first of the low filament consumption tubes intended for dry battery operation and is complete with socket. Both this tube and socket exactly duplicate the American Western Electric's product and were produced by Western Electric's Canadian subsidiary, the Northern :Electric Company of Canada." Tube envelope is cracked and tip is missing. [Donor description]. Reference: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_215a.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from McMurdo Silver Corp., thru McMurdo Silver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.311567
label: catalog number
content: 311567
label: accession number
content: 146541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tube Socket
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: tube socket
label: Other Terms
content: Tube Socket; Components; Radio and Television; Radio and Television
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tube only: 2 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: socket: 7/8 in x 2 in x 1 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 5.08 cm x 3.175 cm