Tel-Com model 150 A portable radiotelephone
date: label: date made
content: ca 1973
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mobile telephone in a leather-covered attache case. Touch-tone handset connected to a transceiver via a coiled cord. Unit built into a leather-covered briefcase. American Express luggage tag on handle for Peter A. Bucky (donor’s father) who used the unit for business communications. Label reads: “Type Number Tel-Com model 150 A / portable radiotelephone / Made in U.S.A. by Tel-Com / Ind., Inc., a subsidiary of / Integrated Systems Tech. Inc., P.O. Box 2585 / Garland, Texas 75041 / 25 Watts 16F3 SN 0442 / Receiver certified / to comply with / FCC rules part 15 / in effect as of / Date of Mfg.” Second label reads: Label: “Mobile phone no. / 572-1538" Plate on handset: “Jan 1980 6 4"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Peter R. Bucky
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0175.01
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0175.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0175
label: serial number
content: 0442
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mobile telephone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 4 1/2 in x 18 in x 14 in; 11.43 cm x 45.72 cm x 35.56 cm