Raytheon type CK-706 germanium diode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A small cylinder with a metal lead emerging from each end. Stamped: “Raytheon ”. March 1953. Germanium point contact diode intended as demodulator and for general purposes. Donor’s card reads: “Germanium diode made by Raytheon Mfg. Co. in the 1950s. An early model. Maximum inverse voltage 40, maximum current of 15 milliamperes.”
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.324810
label: catalog number
content: 324810
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Diode, Germanium
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Other Terms
content: Diode, Germanium; Solid State Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7/32 in; .9525 cm x .5555 cm