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The Thyratron

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As Joseph Desch states in his interview for the Smithsonian, early in the war his lab produced, by hand, all of the thyratron tubes used for contracts for defense work. By mid-1942 this task had become nearly impossible to fulfill and the lab looked elsewhere for production. This document is a description of the specifications sent to the Sylvania Company for production.
This document used with permission of the NCR Archive at Dayton History

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