Bud model 123 pentode adapter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1928
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked (box): "Bud / No. 123 / Pentode / Adapter" and "Bud / Radio / Products / are / Manufactured / by / Bud Radio, Inc. / Cleveland, Ohio". Directions: "Remove 245 or 345 power tubes from radio set and place Bud Pentode Adapter in socket. Then insert type 47 pentode tube in adapter. This adapter can be used in sets either where one 45 or two 45 tubes are used." A vacuum tube adapter in original box. Bakelite construction with 4-pin base designed to allow use of a 5-pin tube (called a "pentode").
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.322023.01
label: catalog number
content: 322023
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adapter
label: Object Name
content: tube socket adapter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 2 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 4.1275 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: unit: 1 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 3.4925 cm