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Rh nickel collar N and the support rods P. The grid lead is brought out through the tube Q. The tube is completed by sealing together the flare R and the bulb C.



In this tube all welds except those in the collar N are eliminated, the assembly being bolted together. The drawing of the anode does away with the leaks that were troublesome in the older tubes and the manufacture of the tube can be carried out with certainty.

With this tube as much as 12 have been obtained in an artificial antenna working at 12,000 volts. This power was obtained at a frequency of 600,000 cycles corresponding to 500 meters wave length. The difficulties of obtaining this amount of power at this frequency using a number of smaller tubes in parallel, are obvious to anyone who is acquainted with the problem. On a test the anode was found to be capable of dissipating 26  when cooled with water.