Edwin H. Armstrong and Marion Armstrong with the First Portable Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, 1923

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Artifact Overview

Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneer of radio engineering, credited as the inventor of FM radio. In 1918 he filed a patent for the superheterodyne radio circuit. This technology increased the sensitivity and selectivity of radio receivers. The radio depicted is the first portable superheterodyne radio receiver ever made. Armstrong gave it to his wife, Marion, on their 1923 honeymoon.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

January 1923

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

EI.1929.N.B.47504

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Edwin H. Armstrong and Marion Armstrong with the First Portable Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, 1923