RCA type 3-B-25 half-wave gas rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 4-pin base with top contact, domed envelope. Stamped on envelope: “3B25”. Donor’s card reads: “Half-wave gas rectifier made by the Radio Corporation of America during World War II. A xenon filled rectifier, coated filament type, which retained its normal characteristics trough an extreme range of temperatures, from minus 75 to plus 90 degrees centigrade. Filament: 2.5 volts at 5 amperes. Maximum plate voltage 5000, maximum current 400 milliamps.”
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.324952
label: catalog number
content: 324952
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 2 in; 15.24 cm x 5.08 cm