Raytheon type BH full-wave cold-cathode rectifier
date: label: date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: Raytheon Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 4-pin base with tipped S-shaped envelope. Donor's card reads: "Full wave rectifier made by the Eveready Raytheon Company about 1929. A gaseous type rectifier without filament or heater, an improved model of the Raytheon type "B" (catalog number 324412). This tube was capable of a DC output of 180 volts at 125 milliamperes, and was satisfactory in radio broadcast receivers of its period." See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_bh.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.324411
label: catalog number
content: 324411
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vacuum Tube
label: Object Name
content: rectifier
label: Other Terms
content: rectifier; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.795 cm x 4.445 cm