General Electric prototype transistor radio
date: label: date made
content: 1954
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Clear plex housing with three internal bays. One for batteries, one for signal processing electronics, and one for tuning capacitors . On-off toggle switch on top next to rotary volume control and two bridges. Large tuning knob also on top. There is no internal speaker but rather a two-pin connector on back side of radio along with three bridges and holes to allow adjustment of capacitors. Four holes on front of radio allow adjustment of electronics. Paper label: "Batt. Inst. 1969" and small calendar sheet for Nov. 1969 with the 18th circled. Two Eveready "radio A" batteries (#724) powered the unit. References: Arthur P. Stern and John A. A. Raper, “Transistor AM Broadcast Receivers,” in Convention Record of the IRE, Part 7, “Broadcasting and Television,” (New York: Institute of Radio Engineers, March 1954): 8-14. Also, Arthur P. Stern and John A. Raper, “Transistor Broadcast Receivers,” Electrical Engineering 73, no. 12 (December 1954): 1107-1112. Stern was lead engineer on the project.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Lockheed Martin Corp., thru Mickey Clemons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0007.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0007
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0007.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 in; 11.43 cm x 18.415 cm x 7.62 cm