MESCO radio battery box
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916
name: label: maker
content: Manhattan Electrical Supply Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: No extant markings. Unit designed to contain twelve #803 or #703 Eveready batteries. An eight-point switch permits voltage tapping and two binding posts are used for connection to external circuit. Reference: identical to MESCO battery box described in Manhattan Electrical Supply Co. Catalog of Radio Telegraph Apparatus (1916), page 135 (in Clark Collection).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Franklin Wingard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321071
label: catalog number
content: 321071
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: power supply
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 11 in x 3 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 27.94 cm x 8.89 cm