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Title: Copy of Gammatron HK-14
Creator: De Forest Radio Company
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Believed to be an unfinished test copy of a Heintz & Kaufman gammatron type 14 (HK-14) triode for radar application, likely created by one of the de Forest companies during the 1940s when many tube manufacturers were called on to boost production of other manufacturers' tubes for military contracts.
Type: image
Identifier: 52D4CBCD-E955-4305-8907-126745548668
2003-1-769
Subject: Heintz and Kaufman
Gammatrons
Vacuum-tubes (LCSH)
Nineteen forties (LCSH)
Nineteen fifties (LCSH)
Nineteen thirties (LCSH)
Radar (LCSH)
De Forest, Lee

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