Telefunken type RV12P2000 pentode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Telefunken
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 6-pin plastic base with top contact and T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “RV 12 P 2000 / Ei...tum / 19 43”. Donor’s card reads: “Pentode made by Telefunken for the German government in World War II. Used as a Class A radio frequency amplifier in radio receivers. Heater type: 12.6 volts at .075 amperes. This tube was taken from the German weathership Exernsteine, captured off Shannon Island, Greenland, on 15 October 1944 by USCG Eastwind. The Exernsteine was brought to Philadelphia where this and other tubes were obtained. The tube bears the manufacturing date of 1943.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_rv12p2000.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.324513
label: catalog number
content: 324513
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 in; 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm