Bell Company telephone receiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Bell Telephone Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A telephone receiver with bakelite casing and steel hanger. Etched back: "May 16-1916 AIEE". Typewritten tag found with receiver reads: "The voices of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson, the first man to speak and the first man to hear over a telephone, March 10, 1876, also actuated the diaphragm of this receiver at the first National Meeting of the A.I.E.E., Widner Hall, Philadelphia, May 16, 1916." The AIEE was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, one of the professional groups that later merged to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Nellie Ruth Bliss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.319447
label: catalog number
content: 319447
label: accession number
content: 238754
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telephone Receiver
label: Other Terms
content: Telephone Receiver; Telephones; Receiver; Magneto
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 8.255 cm