Wireless Specialty / RCA "Faradon" model UC-1803 fixed condenser
date: label: date made
content: ca 1922
name: label: maker
content: Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co.
label: maker
content: Radio Corporation of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "World Wide / Wireless / "Faradon" / Condenser / Made for / Radio Corp / of America / by / Wireless Specialty / Apparatus Co. / Boston U.S.A." and "Model UC-1803 / Faradon Condenser / .000025mfd / 10000 Volts Eff. / 1.0 amp at 200 M. max. / Patents Pending". A metal encased fixed condenser with binding post terminal on lower base and on top. Specimen is a transmitting condenser designed for use as a blocking or coupling capacitor in vacuum tube circuits. Reference: RCA 1922 catalog, "Radio Enters the Home," page 95.
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.321822.01
label: catalog number
content: 321822.01
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: capacitor
label: Object Name
content: fixed condenser
label: Object Name
content: fixed capacitor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 6.985 cm