United Electronics type VT-62 transmitting triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941
name: label: maker
content: United Electronics Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 4-pin (banana pins) base with 2 top contacts, S-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: “VT 62” and "10E/11443". Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by United Electronics Co., of Newark, N.J. for the British government during World War II. Similar to the type TY-1-50 tube made by Mullard of England, and is mounted on a standard British base. For use in transmitters as a Class C amplifier; maximum plate voltage 1250, maximum current 90 milliamps, 225 volt negative control grid bias, for an output of 75 watts up to 100 megacycles.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.324953
label: catalog number
content: 324953
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: triode
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 6.35 cm