RCA "Radiola Superette" model R7 radio receiver
date: label: date made
content: c 1931-32
label: date made
content: ca 1932
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Super-Heterodyne / Range: 550-1500 Kilocycles / 60 cycles / [Patent data] / Serial No. 59953". Plate: "Sold by Bremer Music House / 1806 Third Ave. / Rock Island, Ill." Specimen is an eight tube superhetrodyne receiver employing one type 235 radio frequency amplifier tube, one UY-227 tube as a local oscillator, one UY-224 tube as the first detector, one 235 tube as an intermediate frequency amplifier, one UY-227 tube as a second detector, two UX-245 tubes as a push-pull final audio section, and a UX-280 rectifier tube. The intermediate frequency is 175 Kilocycles. Donor lived in Rock Island, IL, so probably purchased this radio for use. Reference: "Langley Set Index" page 104. "Service Notes," Clark Collection: CL-45. Photo: Clark Collection CWC 45-784A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.320883
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 320883
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (knobs (3) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 13 in x 10 in; 48.26 cm x 33.02 cm x 25.4 cm