Murdock electrical condenser pack
date: label: Date made
content: 1919
name: label: Associated Name
content: Watson, Paul G.
label: maker
content: Murdock Radio Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Murdock electrical condenser pack used in amateur station 3BV. Three plastic cased electrical condensers probably used together. Each has two copper connectors on top, and each is stamped: “Murdock / Pat. Appl’d For” and “.0017 M.F.” The unit is mounted in a display case with other pieces from station 3BV. A copper wire leads from the condenser pack to one post of a rotary spark gap (catalog number 325495) also displayed in this case. Another copper wire leads to the outer post of the oscillation transformer catalog number 325494.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325497
label: catalog number
content: 325497
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: condenser
label: Object Name
content: capacitor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 in; 16.51 cm x 17.145 cm x 7.62 cm