Sears type 12-AE-6 “Silvertone” twin-diode, medium-Mu triode
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "12AE6 / Silvertone”. Donor’s card reads: “Twin-diode, medium-Mu triode made for Sears, Roebuck & Co. for their “Silvertone" radio receivers. Used as a combined detector and audio frequency voltage amplifier in automobile radio receivers operating from a 12 volt storage battery. Plate voltage 12 at .75 milliamp.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_12ae6.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.324926
label: catalog number
content: 324926
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: delete
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 1.5875 cm