Myers experimental receiving tube
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Myers Radio Tube Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Four-pin plastic base with tipped S-shaped envelope. Donor card reads: "Triode made by Elman B. Myers in the old Music-Master laboratories in Betzwood, Pa., during the winter of 1926-27. Given to [me] by Fred Milliken, who worked on their construction with Myers. Myers fundamental project was to make tubes for direct operation off a 110 volt power line. While the specifications of this tube are unknown, it is possible that the tube is a filamentary triode for such operation, or possible for operation at a lower voltage from an AC source, since it somewhat resembles a type 226 audio tube for low voltage AC filament operation. The use of the fine wire mesh for plates was quite common among the small tube makers at the time and of itself is not unusual for the period." The manufacturer of this tube in not clear - E.B. Myers Co. Ltd. or Myers Radio Tube Corp., Cleveland, or Elman Myers himself. See Tyne, Saga of the Vacuum Tube," pages 332-336.
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.324361
label: catalog number
content: 324361
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: 5 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 4.445 cm