Westinghouse type WL-632 thyratron
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with top and side contacts, S-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Thyratron made by Westinghouse. A four electrode grid controlled mercury vapor rectifier with negative control characteristics. The unipotential cathode is indirectly heated by the filament which operates on a 5 volt power source at 5 amperes. Operates at frequencies up to 150 cycles per second.”
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.324620
label: catalog number
content: 324620
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 19.05 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm