Western Electric type 313CC cold cathode tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 4-pin base with T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Cold cathode tube made by Western Electric for use in modern [about 1962] telephone circuits. A three electrode, gas-filled tube, brown glass envelope on a standard 4 long pin base. Used in relay, voltage regulator or rectifying circuits in telephony. Normal control gap breakdown voltage: 72; normal sustaining voltage: 75.” Western Electric data sheet notes that this tube contains less than 5 microcuries of krypton-85 gas. Reference: https://www.westernelectric.com/s/313CC.pdf and https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_313cc.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.324999
label: catalog number
content: 324999
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 3.175 cm