Raytheon type 12-BF-6 twin-diode medium-Mu triode
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "12BF6 / Raytheon”. Donor’s card reads: “Twin-diode medium-Mu triode made by Raytheon Mfg. Co. for use as a combined detector, amplifier, and AVC tube in automobile radio receivers operating from a 12 volt storage battery. The triode is particularly useful as a driver for impedance or transformer coupled output stages in automobile radio receivers. Heater type: 12.6 volts at .15 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_12bf6.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.324919.2
label: catalog number
content: 324919.2
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
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