General Motors type 6A8G pentagrid converter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: General Motors Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post. Top contact. Domed envelope with 1/3 silvered and 1/2 aquadag(?) internal coating. Stamped on envelope: "6A8G / Made in U.S.A.", on base: "GM / Genuine / Part". Donor’s card reads: “Pentagrid converter, glass type, made for the General Motors Parts Corporation, for use as a converter tube in superheterodyne radio receivers. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere. Electrically similar to the type 6A8 metal tube [catalog number 324563] and is interchangeable with the metal tube. This tube has an octal type base.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6a8g.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.324576
label: catalog number
content: 324576
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heptode
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 3.81 cm