Wireless Specialty "Faradon" model UC-2548-K condenser
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: "Faradon" model UC-2548-K condenser. Marked: "Faradon / UC2548K Ser. No. 416 / .0003 MFD. 20000 Volts Eff / 7 Amps at 6000 kilocycles minimum / 7 amps at 3000 / 3.5 amps at 1500 / Patented / June 17, 1920 Mar. 16, 1920 July 6, 1920 Aug. 17, 1920 Sept. 27, 1921 / Jan. 31, 1922 Feb. 27, 1923 July 1, 1924 July 22, 1924 Aug. 19, 1924 / Other Patents Pending / Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co. Boston U.S.A." A high voltage transmitting capacitor with heavy metal circular end pieces. External circuit connections are made to the end pieces. Price in 1933 was $27.00. Reference: Faradon "Mica" Capacitor catalog, 1933, page 5, 14. Clark Collection CWC48-252A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.321820
label: catalog number
content: 321820
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: condenser
label: Object Name
content: capacitor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 6 in x 5 in; 12.065 cm x 15.24 cm x 12.7 cm