Philco Model 16B Cathedral Radio
date: label: date made
content: ca 1933
name: label: maker
content: Philco
notes: label: Description
content: America embraced a new technology in the wake of World War One: radio. The wide availability of affordable receivers allowed people across the country to access both local and national programming. Radio became so popular that even the Great Depression could hardly slow sales. Philco manufactured this model 16B “cathedral” style radio around 1933. The model 16B was an eleven-tube superheterodyne with two wave band receivers that could pick up broadcasts from as far away as Britain. The front of the case consists of a single speaker with four knobs—the station selector, tone control, wave band switcher, and the power and volume control.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Jane Petitmermet
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0671.01
label: model number
content: 16B
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0671.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0671
objectType: label: Object Name
content: receiver
label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
label: Other Terms
content: receiver; Radio
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 49.1 cm x 42 cm x 32.2 cm; 19 5/16 in x 16 9/16 in x 12 11/16 in