Eimac type 15E transmitting triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Eimac
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 2-pin glass base with top and side contacts. Side tipped. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by Eitel-McCullough of San Carlos, Calif. for the US government in the early days of radar. Thoriated tungsten filament 5.5 volts at 4.2 amp, 20 watt plate dissipation, amplification factor 25, full power up to 600 megacycles. For pulse operation on 500 megacycles, plate voltage up to 10000 at 3 milliamps, may be used to obtain pulsed output of 10 kw.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_15e.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.325188
label: catalog number
content: 325188
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube, Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm