home-made mica capacitor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Wingard, Franklin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A home-made mica flat-plate capacitor for amateur radio use. Varnished mica sheets are contained between two steel plates held together by steel U-channel extrusions on all four edges, and secured by cloth electrical tape. One stranded copper lead is soldered on one end of the unit, the other lead on that end and both leads on the opposite end are missing. No extant maker's marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.241556.789
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 241556.789
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fixed condenser
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 14.605 cm x 4.445 cm