General Electric type 5-BE-8 medium-Mu triode sharp cutoff pentode
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 9-pin glass base with tipped T-shaped envelope. Miniature tube. Stamped: “[GE logo] Electronic / Tube / Made in U.S.A. / 16E”. Donor’s card reads: “Medium-Mu triode sharp cutoff pentode made by General Electric Company. Used as a combination VHF oscillator and mixer tube in television receivers employing a series connected heater string. Heater type: 4.7 volts at .6 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_5be8.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.325286
label: catalog number
content: 325286
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode, pentode
label: Object Name
content: triode
label: Object Name
content: pentode
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 5.3975 cm x 2.2225 cm