RCA type 1630 / 5588 / VT-128 “acorn” hexode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A small glass tube, no base, tip on bottom, twelve contact pins around the circumference. Donor’s card reads: “Hexode, acorn type, made by the Radio Corporation of America for the US government during World War II. A “Giant Acorn” type used mostly as a frequency changer in radio receiving equipment. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere. Working anode voltage: 450 at 15 milliamperes, #2 grid 110 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_1630.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.324992
label: catalog number
content: 324992
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: hexode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 5.08 cm