Lansdale / Philco type 6B8G twin diode remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Lansdale Tube Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 8-pin base with center post, top contact, domed envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Twin diode – remote cutoff pentode made by the Lansdale Tube Company for the Philco Corporation. Used as a combination detector, amplifier and AVC tube in radio receivers. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6b8g.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.324572
label: catalog number
content: 324572
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 3.81 cm