Atwater Kent model 11 tuner with type 5A detector-amplifier
date: label: date made
content: ca 1923
name: label: maker
content: Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Atwater Kent model 11 radio tuner with type 5A detector-amplifier. Marked: on tuner: "Atwater Kent / Phila. Penna. / Patents Pending / Type 11 tuner"; on amplifier: "Atwater-Kent / Phila. - Type 5A / Patents Pending / Use only 1/4 ampere tubes / 2 Radio-Det. - 2 Audio". Open style construction is employed on this unit which consists of the Atwater Kent type 11 tuner and the type 5A detector and audio frequency amplifier mounted on a wooden base. 1/4 ampere 201-A tubes were employed in the electronic stages (missing from this unit). The coupled circuit tuner has a 0-100 calibrated scale for the variocoupler. Reference: "Electric Appliance Co. Catalog No. 61-R," undated, page 17. "Langley Set Index", page 6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321305
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 321305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 16 in x 9 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 40.64 cm x 23.495 cm