Taylor type T-40 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: Taylor Tubes Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with top contact, ceramic insulator, T-shaped envelope. Stamped in envelope: “Taylor / Tube / Made in U.S.A. / T 20”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by Taylor Tubes Inc., of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1930s for use in amateur radio transmitters. Filament: 7.5 volts at 2.55 amperes. Used as a Class C radio frequency amplifier with 1250 volts and 115 milliamps on the plate, 115 volts negative control grid bias, the tube will deliver about 105 watts from a 5.25 watt drive.”
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.325010
label: catalog number
content: 325010
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 in; 16.51 cm x 5.08 cm