Replica KDKA Mechanical Transmitter
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A replica of the original KDKA radio transmitter. The caption from a 1959 Westinghouse publicity photo reads as follows: "Replica of ·Historic Radio Equipment Donated to Smithsonian Institution. Pittsburgh, Pa . Jan. 13 -- Exact replicas of the historic radio equipment used in the [1920] broadcast of presidential election results have been
label: Description (Brief)
content: donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , D. C., by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Equipped with a similar unit, radio station KDKA transmitted the results of the Harding-Cox election on Nov. 2, 1920, from atop the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh plant. ... The original station had a power output of 100 watts, as compared to the 50,000 watts of today's KDKA transmitter in Allison Park, Pa. The first KDKA unit eventually was converted into a telegraph transmitter and given to the Pennsylvania State Police for use at their barracks in Butler."
label: Location
content: Currently on loan
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Westinghouse Electric Corporation, thru T. C. Kenney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.316088
label: accession number
content: 223996
label: catalog number
content: 316088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transmitter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 33 1/2 in x 30 in x 18 1/2 in; 85.09 cm x 76.2 cm x 46.99 cm