U.S. Army Signal Corps pack-strap type radio receiver
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: maker
content: United States Army. Signal Corps
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black bakelite panel 9" X 10 1/2", leaves recess 4" wide for headset (missing from this unit). Panel contains 4 knobs, 2 battery type clips and square brass frame apparently to hold data. Weight 10 pounds. Bureau of Standards #R-2212 written on tag found in files. Label in files reads: "Radio equipment in the First World War was neither as compact nor as light as that in the Second. This is a portable one-tube receiver which was used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps for field communications. Like the other equipment shown here, headphones were used to listen to the signals."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the United States Bureau of Standards, Dept. of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.313598
label: accession number
content: 188571
label: catalog number
content: 313598
label: collector/donor number
content: R-2212
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in; 17.145 cm x 39.37 cm x 24.765 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 17 in x 10 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 43.18 cm x 26.67 cm