General Motors type 7A7 remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: General Motors Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin metal base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “Licensed / as indicated / on carton / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Remote cutoff pentode used as a radio frequency or intermediate frequency amplifier in General Motors automobile radio receivers. Similar to the type 6-SK-7 except basing. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_7a7.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.325119
label: catalog number
content: 325119
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 3.175 cm