Western Electric type 244A vacuum triode
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 5-pin plastic base with domed envelope. Stamped: “Western Electric / Made in U.S.A. / 244-A”. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Western Electric Company in 1959. Low power triode, heater type, for use in telephony as an audio amplifier or as an oscillator. Heater 2 volts at 1.6 amperes, 135 volt plate circuit, amplification factor 10.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: "The No 244 Vacuum Tube is a general purpose tube having an indirectly heated cathode which permits operation of the heater element directly on alternating current. The tube is for use as an audio-frequency amplifier in intermediate stages but may also be used satisfactorily as a detector or as a power amplifier tube for applications requiring small values of output power." Reference: https://www.westernelectric.com/s/244A.pdf.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Made by Western Electric from 1929 through 1975. Reference: Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum Tube," page 299.
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.325211
label: catalog number
content: 325211
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube , Triode; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 4.445 cm