General Electric type 6SS7 remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1942
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 8-pin base with center post, T-shaped metal envelope. Stamped: “3-48 / 188-5 / [GE logo] / Electronic / Tube / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Remote cutoff pentode made by the General Electric Company. Used in the radio frequency or intermediate frequency stages of radio receivers, particularly those employing AVC. Heater: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6ss7.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.324671
label: catalog number
content: 324671
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.175 cm