radio frequency tester
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This unit is a homemade circuit tester consisting of a lamp socket (porcelain, surface-mount, candelabra-base) with a fluted-cone incandescent lamp installed (1920s era, orange coated, tungsten), and two cloth-insulated lead wires. The wires are coiled and taped together in a loop. This may be a unit to detect radio frequency energy, or a simple circuit tester.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Peter N. Borsi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0697.09
label: accession number
content: 1985.0697
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0697.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Radio Frequency Indicator
label: Object Name
content: circuit tester
label: Other Terms
content: Radio Frequency Indicator; Measuring Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 13.335 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: socket only: 1 in x 1 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 3.4925 cm
label: Measurements
content: lamp only: 1 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 4.445 cm x 1.5875 cm