Westinghouse Lamp Company Experimental Radio Tube, 1920-1921
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Artifact Overview
Radio engineer McMurdo Silver created six tiny experimental vacuum tubes while employed at Westinghouse Electric in the early 1920s. The tubes were near-duplicates of Western Electric's VT-5s--the original "peanut" tubes. Tubes like these were essential to the low-powered trench radios used in WWI. Silver went on to found Silver-Marshall Inc. and frequently contributed technical articles to radio hobbyist magazines.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Vacuum tube
Date Made
1920-1921
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Vacuum tube created by McMurdo Silver while working for Westinghouse Lamp Company.
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
35.434.216.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of McMurdo Silver.
Material
Glass (Material)
Copper (Metal)
Dimensions
Height: 3 in
Diameter: 0.75 in
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