Osram type VT-98 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Osram
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A tubular glass envelope with a heat sink, two contacts in a metal cap, and a side contact. Donor’s card reads: “Triode probably made by the Osram Works, Brook Green, London under their own number, E-960-T for use in early (1940) television transmission in England, and subsequently used in both British and American radio units. Capable of full power up to 250 megacycles. Filament 8.25 volts at 35 amperes. Plate voltage 23000, maximum plate dissipation 750 watts. Another possible source for this tube is the S.F.R.E, Societe Francaise Radioelectrique, 79 bd. Haussmann, Paris (8) France.”
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.324691
label: catalog number
content: 324691
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: 13 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 33.02 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.255 cm