RCA type 83 full-wave mercury vapor rectifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 4-pin base with tipless domed envelope. Stamped on envelope: "83". Donor’s card reads: “Full-wave mercury vapor rectifier made by the Radio Corporation of America about 1935 or before. Filament type: 5 volts at 3 amperes. DC maximum output ratings at 225 milliamperes and 435 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_83.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.324526
label: catalog number
content: 324526
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Diode
label: Object Name
content: diode
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Diode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm