Western Electric type 101D triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1938
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A telephone repeater tube with a plastic 4-pin base, ladder grid, red tipped, G-shaped envelope. Unit packed in a Western Electric D-86326 box with D-86326 instruction sheet. Markings: "Western Electric / Made in U.S.A. / 101-D / Pat. in U.S.A. / 10-17-16 [...] 6-16-25" Two paper reinforcers on envelope, one marked: "Def." the other marked: "12-4-39 / #2". Box marked: "Defective / tube / #2". "A three-element filamentary type tube for use where small amounts of output power are required.". References: https://www.westernelectric.com/s/101D.pdf; https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_d86326.html; Tyne, "Saga of the Vacuum Tube," pages 280-291.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN79812U18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: triode
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: tube: 4 in x 2 1/8 in; 10.16 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 3 in x 3 1/8 in x 5 in; 7.62 cm x 7.9375 cm x 12.7 cm