RCA Radio Tuner, 1925-1930
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Artifact Overview
By the late 1920s, radio tuners, detectors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers began to condense into one unit, housed within an attractive wooden or metal cabinet. The standalone nature of this radio tuner puts it in an earlier era of radio -- as a field for amateur operators, commercial technicians, and military communications experts -- rather than the domain of "passive" home listeners.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Radio tuner
Date Made
1925-1930
Creator Notes
Manufactured by General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, for distribution by Radio Corporation of America, headquartered in New York, New York.
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
38.740.3
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Steel (Alloy)
Copper alloy
Bakelite (TM)
Dimensions
Height: 17.5 in
Width: 8.25 in
Length: 18 in
Inscriptions
plaque:
Tuner
Model AL-1426
Give Model When Ordering Parts
No 15804T DL - 2828441
Manufactured for Radio Corporation of America
by General Electric Co., U.S.A.
dial:
Condenser
handwritten:
18831
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