Cardon type C484 vacuum triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Cardon Phonocraft Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Plastic 5-pin base with tipless S-shaped envelope. Stamped on base: "Cardon / -C-484-". Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by Cardon in the late 1920a. A so-called “bootleg tube” [i.e. unlicensed] of the early days of AM broadcasting. Interchangeable with the standard type 227 triodes used in early AC operated home receivers.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_c-484.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.324793
label: catalog number
content: 324793
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: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm