Western Electric / US Navy type CW-38015 triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A plastic 4-contact base, tipped T-shaped glass envelope. Printed on envelope: "U.S.N. / CW-38015". Peanut type tube. Donor’s card reads: “Triode made by the Western Electric Company and used by the US government during World War I. Similar in all know respects to [catalog number 324504]. Filament, oxide coated: 1 volt at .25 ampere.” According to Tyne, “Saga of the Vacuum Tube,” this is a later US Navy designation for the CW-1344 tube (Signal Corps VT-5).
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.324507
label: catalog number
content: 324507
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: 2 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 6.35 cm x 1.905 cm