RCA model TT-5 television receiver
date: label: Date made
content: 1939
label: date made
content: 1941
label: associated date
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Prewar 5-channel television receiver employing a 5BP4 kinescope tube with electrostatic deflection. Designed for use with an external audio amplifier and loud speaker. Channel tuning and scanning is based upon FCC standards adopted in June 1941. Five channels tune from 50-90 mc. with standard 6 mc. bandwidth per channel. Scanning is 525 lines, interlaced. Horizontal scanning frequency 15-50 cps; vertical scanning frequency 60 cps; frame frequency 30 cps. Overall receiver bandwidth is 2.5 mc. Restored to operating condition. This set was also returned to postwar standards by RCA, receives standard VHF lowband channels 2-6 (54-88 mc). A decal on front plus a stamp on the chassis indicates postwar modification by RCA. This was a common practice.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Ethel DuMont
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.327727
label: catalog number
content: 327727
label: accession number
content: 270106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: television receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in x 16 1/4 in; 49.53 cm x 49.53 cm x 41.275 cm