Sylvania type 6W6GT beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic base with 7 pins and center post, T-shaped envelope, getter stain at top. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube, glass octal type, made by Sylvania for use in the audio output stage of television and radio receivers. Triode connected, it is used as a vertical deflection amplifier in television receivers. Heater type filament: 6.3 volts at 1.2 amperes. With 200 volts on the plate, this tube will deliver 3.8 watts output as an audio amplifier.” First made in 1939. See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6w6gt.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.324449
label: catalog number
content: 324449
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm