U.S. Army Signal Corps model BC-156 radio transceiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941
name: label: maker
content: Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: (Nameplate reads): Signal Corps U.S. Army / Radio Receiver & Transmitter / BC-156 / Range: 2640 to 3040 Kilocycles / Designed at Signal Corps / Laboratories, Fort Monmouth / New Jersey / Serial No. 151 / Order no. 1112-NY-41 / Made by: Farnsworth Television / & Radio Corporation, / Fort Wayne / Indiana. This specimen is a field type transceiver utilizing triode type vacuum tubes. Controls include receiver and antenna tuning from 2640 to 3040 KC, filament rheostat and hand type key mounted to base. Instructions on a schematic diagram are affixed to base.
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.320687
label: catalog number
content: 320687
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: US Army Signal Corps model BC-98B radio reciever
label: Object Name
content: radio reciever
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 14 3/8 in x 15 3/4 in; 21.59 cm x 36.5125 cm x 40.005 cm