Ken-Rad type 50L6GT beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic base with 7 pins and center post, T-shaped envelope, getter stain at top. Stamped on envelope: “50L6 / GT”, on base: “Ken-Rad”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by Ken-Rad Corporation, Owensboro, KY, for use in the audio output of AC/DC radio receivers. Heater type filament: 50 volts at .15 ampere. With 200 volts on the plate, 117 on the screen and a 7.5 volt negative control grid bias.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_50l6gt.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.324451
label: catalog number
content: 324451
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm