RCA type C-73140 video conversion tube
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A 14-pin plastic base with center post on the bottom and an 8-pin plastic base with center post on top. T-shaped envelope with two different diameters. Parallel strips of copper line both upper and lower sections on the inner tube walls. Paper label reads: "Form F16B7A / Experimental Type C73140 / Serial No. PP203; DK37457-63 / This tube is supplied for Laboratory and / Experimental purposes only, with no / obligations as to its future manufac- / ture unless other wise arranged. / Radio Corporation of American / RCA Victor Division / Lancaster, Pa." Donor’s card reads: “Video conversion tube made in the Radio Corporation of America laboratories in Lancaster, PA, in 1960. An experimental tube not bearing a conventional number designation, consisting of a videcon and a small picture tube in one envelope. Capable of converting the rotating scanning of radar receivers to the conventional 525 line picture (scanning) for use in secondary cathode ray tube indicators connected to radar equipment.”
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.325216
label: catalog number
content: 325216
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube
label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 2 in; 44.45 cm x 5.08 cm