Sylvania type 12-V-6-GT beam power tube
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 7-pin plastic base with center post, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: “Made in U.S.A. / Sylvania / [logo] / HD”. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by the Sylvania Corporation. Glass octal type. Used primarily as an output amplifier in automobile radio receivers operating from a twelve volt battery. Except for the heater voltage, this tube is identical to the 6-V-GT tube [catalog number 324663]. Heater type: 12.6 volts at .225 ampere.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_12v6gt.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.325109
label: catalog number
content: 325109
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm