General Electric type CG-5528 / C-6-L thyratron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin metal base with top contact, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “JAN-CG-5528/C6L”. Donor’s card reads: “Thyratron made by the General Electric Company for industrial use in the 1940s. A grid-controlled rectifier, this tube is filled with xenon gas. Filament type: 2.5 volts at 17 amperes. Peak inverse voltage 500, peak amperes 77, amperes for continuous service 6.4.”
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.325086
label: catalog number
content: 325086
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 6.35 cm