General Electric type 83-V full-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with domed envelope. Stamped: “[GE logo] Cunningham / Made in U.S.A.” Donor’s card reads: “Full-wave vacuum rectifier made by the General Electric Company and sold by the E. T. Cunningham group under their marketing arrangement. A very old rectifier type, dating from 1933 or before. Electrostatically similar to the type 5-V-4-G rectifier except that the 83-V is mounted on an early type UX base. Heater 5 volts at 2 amperes. Maximum plate peak inverse voltage 1400, maximum current range 525 milliamps, Maximum DC output 175 milliamps at 415 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_83v.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.325207
label: catalog number
content: 325207
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 4.445 cm