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Radio Valve Type ARTP2 with carton, English, Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 76654


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.76654

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
"B / ARTP.2 / ZA. 3062" on painted exterior surface on bulb.
Object type
Radio valve
Dimensions
Diameter: 35mm Height: 95mm Weight: 0.05kg
Inventory No
76654
Accession Number
2004-9/251

Description

Screened Pentode Radio Valve (or Tube) Type ARTP12, of ARP12 style, in plain speckled cardboard carton. Valve with varnished green-painted (or screened) glass, single steel top cap and plastic? base. With eight nickel-plated steel base pins and one plastic? central base pin.