<i>Carpathia</i> Switch Lever
date: label: date made
content: 1911
name: label: maker
content: Marconi
label: maker
content: Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This switch lever was part of RMS <i>Carpathia</i>'s wireless radio apparatus; most likely it was a manual breaker for the antenna connection to the radio. It would have been opened in storms to prevent lightning from striking the radio itself. It was damaged during the rescue of <i>Titanic</i>'s passengers, and the next time the ship was in Boston, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company employee Harry Cheetham went aboard <i>Carpathia</i> to service the wireless. At the time, shipboard radios belonged to the radio company, not the shipping lines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Communications
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content: Transportation
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content: Titanic
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harry R. Chetham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.309910
label: catalog number
content: 309910
label: accession number
content: 110988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio switch
label: Object Name
content: switch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 5/8 in x 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x 1.5875 cm x .47625 cm