Wireless Specialty / RCA "Radiola IX" model AR-1396 radio receiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
label: maker
content: Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: Radiola IX / Radio Phonograph adjunct / Radio Corporation of America / Receiver and Radio Audio Amplifier / Model AR1396. Patented: 1/15/07; 1/21/08; 2/18/08; 4/12/10; 7/6/12; 10/6/14; 1/23/17; 3/13/17; 7/3/17; 10/22/18; 1/7/19; 12/23/19; 6/15/20; 7/6/20; 4/19/21; 12/274/21; 8/22/22. Made by wireless Specialty Apparatus Co., Boston USA. Inspection tag reads Job No. 9121-7, Serial No. 3152. Assembled by Surette Staick / Date: 5/26/24. Radio receiver consisting of all pertinent components mounted on 17.5" square panel. Chassis only, to be mounted in place of the lid in a console phonograph as an accessory / upgrade. UV201A tubes are normally employed (missing from unit). Circuit appears to be TRF type using two RF stages, detector, and two stages of audio. Controls on the front panel include antenna and secondary tuning, volume control, filament rheostat and selector switch. Secondary inductance coils consist of three spider web coils mounted in a fixed coupling arrangement. Battery cable and antenna are provided. Reference: Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's, Vol. 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.321662
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: catalog number
content: 321662
label: model number
content: AR1396
label: serial number
content: 3152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: RCA "Radiola IX" radio receiver
label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/4 in x 17 3/4 in x 2 in; 45.085 cm x 45.085 cm x 5.08 cm