Westinghouse type WL-575-A mercury vapor rectifier
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A metal 4-pin base with ceramic insulator, top contact, BT-shaped envelope. Stamped: “[W logo] / Westinghouse / Made in U.S.A. / WL-833-A [W logo]”. Donor’s card reads: “Half wave mercury vapor rectifier made by the Westinghouse Company. For heavy duty service, high voltage and high current. Used extensively in AM broadcast transmitters. Filament: 5 volts at 10 amperes. Maximum DC output voltage 4000, maximum DC current 1.5 amperes.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_wl%2D575a.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.324520
label: catalog number
content: 324520
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: 10 in x 3 in; 25.4 cm x 7.62 cm