Western Electric type 396-A twin triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: "Western / Electric / 396A / Made in U.S.A. / 5813". Donor’s card reads: “Twin triode made by the Western Electric Company about 1945. Similar to the type 2-C-51 tube. Used as an amplifier, mixer, oscillator, multivibrator, and in clamp circuits through the VHF range. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .3 ampere. Plate 150 volts, negative control grid bias 2 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_396a.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.324867
label: catalog number
content: 324867
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 1.905 cm