De Forest "Audion" type CF185 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1917
name: label: maker
content: De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 3-pin bayonet base with plastic shell. 2 collector plates, one on either side of a flat-wound grid that surrounds a vertically-mounted tungsten filament. Tipped T-shape envelope. Red-bordered octagonal paper label printed: ".85 / Amp". "534" written on one collector plate. Reference: Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum Tube," pages 120-124; https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_cf-185.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 the United States Bureau of Standards, Dept. of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.320177
label: catalog number
content: 320177
label: accession number
content: 188571
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: 6 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 3.81 cm