Western Electric type 323-B thyratron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 5-pin plastic base with top contact, ceramic insulator, domed envelope. Stamped in envelope: "Western Electric / Made in U.S.A. / 323B". Donor’s card reads: “Thyratron made by Western Electric Company about 1940. This tube is a half wave thermionic, three element, negative grid, medium power thyratron designed to operate at frequencies below 150 cycles. Primarily intended to use in regulated rectifier, relay, inverter, or other applications requiring thyratron characteristics. Filament: 7.5 volts at 2.55 amperes. Approximate drop is 15 volts, the maximum peak voltage between anode and grid is 500 volts.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.325013
label: catalog number
content: 325013
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 in; 16.51 cm x 5.08 cm