Sears type 58 “Silvertone” remote cutoff pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1933
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 6-pin base with top contact, domed envelope. Stamped on base: “Silvertone / L-58- 2CX”. Donor’s card reads: “Remote cutoff pentode made for Sears, Roebuck & Co., for use in their Silvertone radio receivers. Used in the radio frequency and intermediate frequency stages of radio receivers employing AVC, and as a mixer in superheterodyne circuits. Heater type: 2.5 volts at 1 ampere.”
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.324948
label: catalog number
content: 324948
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: 5 in x 1 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm