Abstract :
Four technical sessions on the application of large pool tubes and equivalent devices to rectifiers are scheduled for the AIEE Conference on Electronic Converter Applications and Tubes, to be held May 19–20 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa. Two inspection trips are planned for the afternoon of May 19. One trip will be to the Edgar Thomson Works and the Homestead Works of the United States Steel Company. The second trip will be to the East Pittsburgh Works of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation to see ignitron rectifier manufacturing and testing.