General Electric type UX-841 power triode
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 4-pin plastic base with S-shaped envelope, getter stain. Stamped on base: “841”. Donor’s card reads: “Power triode made by the General Electric Company for the Radio Corporation of America for transmitting use at frequencies up to 6 megacycles. Thoriated tungsten filament used as audio frequency amplifier and modulator, and as a radio frequency amplifier and oscillator. Filament: 7.5 volts at 1.25 amperes. With 450 volts on the plate and 250 volts negative control grid bias, this tube will give an output of about 15 watts continuous wave telegraphy.”
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.324540
label: catalog number
content: 324540
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: 5 1/4 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 5.08 cm