Radio receiver from amateur station 3BV
date: label: date made
content: ca 1913
name: label: associated person
content: Watson, Paul G.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Radio receiver from amateur station 3BV. A wooden box with a crystal detector and two sweep switches on top. One switch has 5 positions, the other has 14 positions. Two pairs of binding posts are mounted on the front, labeled: "Phones", "Aerial", and "Ground". A knob on the right side is secured with a piece of tape on which is typed: "Pull this knob out to work slider on tuning coil. It does not turn." A paper label with the donor's name and address is affixed to the bottom: "The first cabinet type receiver used in amateur radio station 3BV. West Chester, Penna. from 1913 to 1916. This receiver has a single slide tuning coil, a tapped antenna inductance, and a tapped shunt tuning condenser. Warning. The knob on the end of the cabinet pulls out to operate the slide contanct [sic], and does not turn. Turning this will wreck the slider."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325323
label: catalog number
content: 325323
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crystal receiver
label: Object Name
content: 3receiver
label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
label: Other Terms
content: Receiver; Radio
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 14 in x 7 in; 22.86 cm x 35.56 cm x 17.78 cm