Vacuum tube
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- OBJECT TYPE
- UHF POWER AMPLIFIER/AIR-COOLED
- DATE
- 1936
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0633.001
- MANUFACTURER
- RCA Mfg. Co. Inc.
- MODEL
- 834
- LOCATION
- Camden, New Jersey, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- GLASS/ METAL/ SYNTHETIC/ PAPER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 16.6 cm
- Width
- 6.7 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Vacuum Tubes
- Category
- Transmitting
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- RCA
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Jersey
- City
- Camden
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- PROBABLY 1940'S
- Canada
-
MADE FOR CANADIAN DISTRIBUTION - Function
-
USED AS A RADIO-FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER AND OSCILLATOR, PARTICULARLY AT THE HIGHER RADIO FREQUENCIES (DATA SHEET) - Technical
-
EARLY EXAMPLE OF THORIATED TUNGSTEN FILAMENT. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TUBE WITH TWO INDIVIDUAL LEADS BROUGHT OUT OF THE TUBE TOP WITH SEPARATE SEALS INSURES LOW INTERELECTRODE CAPACITANCES AND MINIMUM LEAD INDUCTANCE (REF.1) - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- TUBE: ON GLASS: '834'/ PRINTED ON BASE: 'RCA [LOGO] Radiotron/ MADE IN U.S.A./ LICENSED/ AS STATED/ ON CARTON/ MADE FOR/ CANADIAN MARCONI/ COMPANY LTD.'/ HANDWRITTEN ON GLASS SUPPORT: '4937/ 16'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- TUBE: UNCOLOURED GLASS; BLACK BASE WITH SILVER PRINTING/ CARTON: MULTI-COLOURED PRINTING: BLUE, RED,YELLOW & WHITE
- Decoration
- CARTON: WORLD MAP DRAWN AROUND TOP HALF
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RCA Mfg. Co. Inc., Vacuum tube, circa 1936, Artifact no. 1966.0633, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0633.001/
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