Western Electric type 713A pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with center post, oval glass envelope with getter stain. Donor’s card reads: “Pentode made by Western Electric Company for US government use in World War II. Similar to the 717-A tube [catalog number 324772] except that the 713-A has a 7-pin octal bakelite base and the 717-A has a micanol wafer with a metal shell. Heater type: 6.3 volts at .175 ampere. Plate and screen 1720 volts, control grid negative bias 2 volts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_713a.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.324522
label: catalog number
content: 324522
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: 1 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 4.445 cm x 3.175 cm