Photo-Radio Apparatus
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
setName: label: See more items in
content: George H. Clark Radioana Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0055, Series 54
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series 54 contains material on photo-radio apparatus including: photographs of people and apparatus; photographs of facsimile receivers; engineers with radio facsimile receiver-printers; operators preparing to send messages; RCA Facsimile Scanners; Jenkins Radio Weather-Map Transmitters; Jenkins Radio Weather-Map Receivers; and several photographs of Jenkins Photoradio apparatus. Also photographs of Jenkins moving picture devices; transmitting facsimile apparatus of the De Forest Company, 1932; radio transmitters made for Radio News Corporation by De Forest Radio Corporation; RCA bulletins on Radio Facsimile system; a booklet on French Facsimile System; list of Experimental Facsimile Broadcasters; a forty-four page bookl on Synchronized Reproduction of Sound and Scene, 1928; some random tests with a photo-radio transmitter and receiver; a number of newspaper and magazine clippings containing articles and illustrations; affidavits transmitted by photoradio; and some notes on facsimile transmission by the RCA Facsimile Service. See Series L for index to photographs in Bound Volumes. See also series 133.