Slater type 836 half-wave vacuum rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 4-pin base, top contact, domed envelope. Base stamped “JAN-CQN-836 / VT-236 / Made in U.S.A. / Slater", envelope: “836”. Donor’s card reads: “Half wave vacuum rectifier ... used in the power supply of transmitters and industrial equipment. Heater type: 2.5 volts at 5 amperes. Maximum peak inverse plate voltage 5000, maximum plate current 1 ampere. Obsolete in 1942.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_836.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.324647
label: catalog number
content: 324647
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: 6 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 5.715 cm