General Electric type VT14 / CG1162 transmitting triode
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A brass 4-pin (short) base with tipped S-shaped envelope. Donor card reads: "Triode made by the General Electric Company for the US government during World War 1. For use as an oscillator in low powered radio transmitters, mostly Navy subchasers and airplanes. Also known as the VT-14 tube. Pure tungsten filament, 7.5 volts at 1.75 amps, 350 volts at 40 milliamperes on the plate. When so used would give about 5 watts radio frequency output. Cylindrical molybdenum plate."
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.324343
label: catalog number
content: 324343
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: 4 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 4.445 cm