Ken-Rad / Crosley type 78 remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 6-pin base, top contact, Screen grid, mica insulator, domed envelope with black band coated inside. Stamped on envelope: "78". Donor’s card reads: “Remote cutoff pentode probably made by the Radio Corporation of America for Crosley Mfg. Co. for use in their line of radio receivers. Used in the radio frequency or an intermediate frequency stages of radio receivers employing AVC. Heater type, 6.3 volts at .3 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_78.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.324596
label: catalog number
content: 324596
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: 4 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 3.81 cm