Telefunken type RS-282 triode
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: Telefunken
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A double-ended T-shaped tube with perforated metal base, two contact plastic top cap, and one contact on each side. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Telefunken Company for the German government during World War II. Used as a Class B radio frequency amplifier up to 6 megacycles. Taken from the German weathership Exersteine, captured by USCGC Eastwind off Shannon Island, Greenland, on 15 October 1944. Heater: 8 volts at 1.6 amps. Plate 1000 volts at 180 milliamperes, 60 volt negative control grid bias, for an output of 100 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_rs282.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.324728
label: catalog number
content: 324728
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 24.765 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.255 cm