SPECIAL POWER TUBES

Duration: 18 min

Creator: Department of the Air Force (Department of Defense)

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Discusses the distinguishing characteristics, operation, and advantages of remote cutoff tubes. Compares remote and sharp cutoff tubes, and discusses the operation of a sharp cutoff tube. Gives the purpose of remote cutoff tubes, discusses the beam power tube construction and how the beam forming plates overcome disadvantage of secondary emission, thereby making it an ideal tube for power amplification. (Kinescope)