Western Electric type 354A thyratron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A rectifier tube with a four-pin plastic base, perforated plates, top-mounted contact, mercury vapor fill, S-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Thyratron made by the Western Electric Company around 1940. A grid-controlled mercury vapor rectifier. A half-wave, thermionic, three element, negative grid, medium power thyratron designed to operate at frequencies below 150 cycles. Not gas filled. Primarily intended for use in regulated rectifier, relay, inverter or other applications requiring thyratron characteristics. Filament 2.5 volts at 16 amperes. Approximate drop is 15 volts. Maximum voltage between anode and grid is 1500 volts." See also: https://www.westernelectric.com/s/354A.pdf.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.325053
label: catalog number
content: 325053
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: thyratron
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 23.495 cm x 7.3025 cm