Electronic Home Controller
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Mastervoice, Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This hand-made circuit board served as the brain for Gus Searcy and Franz Kavan’s "Butler In A Box" electronic home controller. In addition to the various capacitors, resistors and transistors on the board, there are two integrated circuits. The idea was to couple emerging computer technology with novel wireless devices and make a product that could control a variety of electrical devices in a home.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Gus Searcy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0079.02
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0079.02
label: accession number
content: 1991.0079
objectType: label: Object Name
content: answering machine component
label: Object Name
content: circuit board
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 20 cm x 24 cm; 3 9/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 9 7/16 in