Sleeper "Scout 64" radio receiver chassis
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Sleeper Radio Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: Sleeper Electric / Alternating Current / 90-125 Volts AC 60 Cycles. / No. 113227 / Made in USA by / Sleeper Radio & Mfg. Corp. / Long Island City, N.Y. / Pats. Pending". Unit appears to be the chassis from a "Sleeper Scout 64" tuned radio frequency (TRF) receiver. Unit employs five tubes including a UX-171 power output tube. Other tubes cited as UV-201A and UX-216B. Two tubes are missing. Wavelength control has a two-gang tuning capacitor, and antenna control has a single section capacitor. No cabinet, chassis only. Reference: Langley Set Index, page 63, for Sleep Radios. Also: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sleeper_scout_64.html.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.321423
label: catalog number
content: 321423
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 22 in x 9 in; 22.86 cm x 55.88 cm x 22.86 cm