Lafayette type 6SA7GTG pentagrid converter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Lafayette Radio & TV Corp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope, can-type collector. Stamped on base: "Lafayette / Made in U.S.A."; on envelope: "6SA7 / GT/G". Donor’s card reads: “Pentagrid converter made by the Lafayette Radio Co., New York, for use in their line of radio receivers. Used as a converter in superheterodyne receivers. Similar to and interchangeable with the metal type 6-SA-7 [catalog number 324566].” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6sa7gt.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.325057
label: catalog number
content: 325057
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: heptode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 3.175 cm