Bremer-Tully silent socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Bremer-Tully Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Silent Socket / Positive Contact / Genuine Bakelite / Pat. Pending / Best Remedy for / Microphonic Noise / Bremer-Tully / Chicago". A radio tube socket with instruction sheet in original box. Unit has rubber dampers mounted on flexible metal arms that hold the tube in place and thus reduce microphonic noise. Socket base is made of bakelite with appropriate metal contacts for 201A type tubes. Original sale price: $1.25. Reference: Bremer-Tully instruction sheet.
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.322014
label: catalog number
content: 322014
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: unit: 4 in x 2 in x 2 in; 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm