Burroughs type 6844A "Nixie" numeric display tube in original box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1957
name: label: maker
content: Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 13-pin base (steel pins) with tipless T-shaped glass envelope. A stack of electrodes are formed into numbers 0 through 9 behind a screen grid. The neon gas fill will glow near whichever number is energized. Stamped: "Burroughs / 6844A / A27 / NIXIE [circled R] / 245 / Made in U.S.A.." Box includes US patent numbers 2874320, 2878407, and 2990061. Reference: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6844a.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.241556.810
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 241556.810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coronal discharge lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: tube: 1 3/8 in x 1 in; 3.4925 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm