CBS Hytron type 2-E-26 beam power tube
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: CBS Hytron
label: maker
content: Hytron Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An 8-pin plastic base with center post, top contact, T-shaped envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Beam power tube made by CBS-Hytron during World War II. Glass octal type used as an audio frequency power amplifier and modulator. Also used as a radio frequency amplifier and oscillator up to 125 megacycles. For Class C radio frequency application: plate 500 volts, screen 180 volts, negative control grid bias 50 volts for an output of 20 watts.” See also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_2e26.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.324794
label: catalog number
content: 324794
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electron tube
label: Object Name
content: vacuum tube
label: Object Name
content: beam power tube
label: Other Terms
content: Electron Tube; Electron Tubes
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 9.2075 cm x 3.175 cm