Thyratron-type tube
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: "Thyratron: a hot-cathode, gas-content tube in which one or more control electrodes initiate, but do not limit, the anode current except under certain operating conditions." Hull in GE Review, April 1929. A 4-pin plastic base with top contact, mesh grid, S-shaped envelope. No extant maker markings.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Hallam E. Mendenhall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0695.13
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0695.13
label: accession number
content: 1988.0695
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vacuum Tube/Thyratron
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 4.445 cm