RCA "Radiola 26" portable super-heterodyne
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: Radiola 26 / Portable Super-heterodyne / Radio Corporation of America / Serial no. 208242 / 4-22-25. (Additional plates give licensing, patent, and battery usage date.) Specimen is one of the first commercial superhetrodyne receivers, consists of two station selectors, battery voltage rheostat, and volume control. Tube circuitry employs six UV-199 triodes with separate local oscillator. Portable cabinet strap missing. This type of receiver sold for $225.00. REF: "Langley Set Index", page 58. "Advance Information Leaflet Radiolas 24 & 26". (Clark Collection: CL-45).
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.321077
label: catalog number
content: 321077
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: serial number
content: 208242
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/8 in x 13 in x 9 1/4 in; 35.8775 cm x 33.02 cm x 23.495 cm