General Electric type 1S5 diode sharp cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "[GE logo] Electronic / Tube / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Diode-sharp cutoff pentode made by General Electric Company. Used in light-weight compact portable battery-operated radio receivers as a combined detector and audio frequency voltage amplifier. Superseded by the type 1-U-5 [catalog number 324932]. Filament type: 1.4 volts at .05 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_1s5.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.324934
label: catalog number
content: 324934
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 1.5875 cm