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Radio Valve Type AR8, English, Mid 20th Century in Box

Inventory Number 71310


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.71310

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
"AR 8 / ZA 7022 / V" printed on painted exterior surface of bulb. AR8 / ZA7022 / V printed on exterior surface of carton side.
Object type
Radio valve
Dimensions
Diameter: 35mm Height: 95mm Weight: 0.05kg
Inventory No
71310
Accession Number
2004-9/239

Description

Battery Double Diode Triode Radio Valve (or Tube) Type AR8, in printed speckled cardboard carton. Valve with white-painted (or screened) glass, single steel top cap and black plastic? base. With eight steel base pins and one black plastic? central base pin.