U.S. Army Signal Corps model BC-53A radio tranceiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Signal Corps, U.S. Army / Operating Chest Type BC 53-A / Used with Radio-Telegraph Set / Type SCR-105 / Order No. 130898 / Serial No. G-970 / Date 1920 / Made by Radio Corporation of America / N.P. 20404". This is a field type unit with a canvas flap over the control panel. Controls include transmit-receive switch, secondary tuning condenser, antenna tuning inductance, primary tuning, and receiver coupling. Output for telephones or amplifier. Tube missing.
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.320721
label: catalog number
content: 320721
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 14 1/4 in x 6 in; 33.02 cm x 36.195 cm x 15.24 cm