Spark Gaps
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Clark, George Howard, 1881-1956
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content: George H. Clark Radioana Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0055, Series 32
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series 32 contains material on various spark gaps, among which are rotary type, synchronous and non-synchronous; fixed gap, non-quenching; quenched gaps; gaskets; anchor gaps in antenna circuit; synchronous rotary spark gaps; compressed air gaps, etc. Included are diagrams; photographs; descriptions; explanatory notes; data; magazine and newspaper clippings; pamphlets; abstracts of contracts and payments; testimony; reports; correspondence; and court proceedings related to spark gaps.