Sylvania type 6BG6GA beam power pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic base with 8 pins. T-shaped envelope with top contact. Stamped on base: “Sylvania”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by Sylvania just after World War II. Glass octal type used in horizontal deflection circuits of television equipment, and other equipment where high pulse voltages occur during short duty cycles. Heater: 6.3 volts at .9 amperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6bg6ga.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.324797
label: catalog number
content: 324797
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; 13.97 cm x 4.7625 cm