British Marconi type MT-6 power triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: Marconi
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A power triode BT-shaped envelope, two stranded copper leads with ceramic-bead insulators emerge from the top, one from the bottom, and another from a side tube. Stamped: “M.T.6 / 5885 / Made & Patented in England / Marconi / [logo]”. Donor’s card reads: “Power triode made by the British Marconi Company in the 1930s. Filament: 15.5 volts at 10 amperes. Plate 10000 volts at 125 milliamps, plate dissipation 200 watts. Amplification factor 150. May be used at full input up to 1.5 megacycles.”
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.324830
label: catalog number
content: 324830
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 9 in x 6 in; 36.83 cm x 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm