Knapp Electric Questioner #325
date: label: date made
content: 1929
name: label: maker
content: Knapp Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Electric educational game wherein one touches two posts with electrodes in order to answer a question posed on one of the cards. Includes card holder mounted in lid. Made around 1929-30 and includes the following cards:
label: Description (Brief)
content: “Set A - General Information”
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content: - “No. 21-Characters in Literature” [front] and “No. 22-Historical Discoveries and Explorers” [back]
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content: “Set F - True-To-Life Series”
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content: - “No. 79-Merchant Flags”
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content: “Set H - Prize Winning Contest Cards Series”
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content: - “No. 89-Astronomy by Ruth Seeling, Des Moines, Iowa” [front] and “No. 90-China by Morris Hayes, Palo Alto, Calif.” [back]
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content: - “No. 95-Nature Questions by Louise Ardolino, Yonkers, New York” [front] and “No. 96-Wonder Questions by Elaine Bettman Evanston, Ill.” [back]
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content: - “No. 99-The Life of George Washington by William Callis, Baltimore, Md.” [front] and “No. 100-Proverbs of Benj. Franklin by Gladys Biglow, East Orange, N.J.” [back]
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content: “Set K - Nature Series”
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content: - “No. 113-Wild Flowers Over Hill and Dale” / - “No. 114-In the Inky Depths of the Sea”
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content: - “No. 115-Fruits, Nuts, and Vegetables” / - “No. 116-The World A Million Years Ago”
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content: - “No. 117-The Life of the Ant” / - “No. 118-An Evening with the Microscope”
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content: - “No. 119-A Day at the Zoo” - “No. 120-A Walk by the Water’s Edge”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Teaching Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0180.02
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0180.02
label: accession number
content: 2009.0180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game
label: Object Name
content: board game
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 14 in x 9 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 35.56 cm x 24.13 cm