Nokia Cell Phone with "Mayday" Emergency Transceiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1996
name: label: maker
content: Nokia Inc.
label: maker
content: NAVSYS Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This equipment, originally built by NAVSYS of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was the basis of a federal experimental emergency response system from 1995. Tested in Colorado, the system relied on GPS data and map databases to provide the location of emergency cellular calls. Based on this testing, the Federal Communications Commission established regulations which required the caller's location to be provided to first responders for all mobile E-911 calls. Commercial services—Ford’s Rescu, General Motors OnStar—superseded this test system.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Communications
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content: Time and Navigation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from NAVSYS Corporation through Alison Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0119.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0119
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0119.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cellular telephone
label: Object Name
content: radio transceiver
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
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content: metal (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: .01: cell phone: 7 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 6.35 cm x 4.445 cm
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content: .02: transceiver: 7 in x 6 in x 1 1/4 in; 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm x 3.175 cm
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content: .03: control unit: 5 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 19.05 cm x 6.985 cm
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content: .04: user interface: 4 in x 3 in x 2 in; 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm
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content: .05: battery: 7 in x 3 in x 1 1/8 in; 17.78 cm x 7.62 cm x 2.8575 cm
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content: .06: computer chips: 1 1/2 in x 5/8 in x 3/8 in; 3.81 cm x 1.5875 cm x .9525 cm
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content: .07: case: 7 in x 4 in x 9 in; 17.78 cm x 10.16 cm x 22.86 cm
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content: .08: antenna: 2 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm
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content: .09: data interface: 3 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 7.3025 cm x 2.8575 cm
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content: .10: handset cable: 39 in x 1/2 in; 99.06 cm x 1.27 cm
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content: .11: gray modular cable: 83 in x 1/4 in; 210.82 cm x .635 cm
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content: .12: gray adapter cable: 196 in x 1 in; 497.84 cm x 2.54 cm
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content: .13: control unit cable: 12 in x 1/8 in; 30.48 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: .14: microphone: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 2.8575 cm x 1.905 cm