Microphone
name: label: maker
content: Shure
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this microphone reads "Shure Brothers / Chicago, U. [S.] A. / See / Patent Notice / Inside / Model No. / 707A" / Made in / United States / of America." Sidney N. Shure (1862-1955) was a University of Chicago graduate and amateur radio enthusiast who established the Shure Radio Co. in the 1925. That firm became Shure Bros. in 1928 and began making microphones a few years later.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Microphone maker Sidney N. Shure, 93,” Chicago Tribune (Oct. 19, 1955), p. W10.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Washington, Richland
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Energy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0138.04.1
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0138.04.1
label: accession number
content: 1993.0138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microphone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown, dark (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green, grayish (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: plate: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: plate: 8.9 cm x 8.9 cm; 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length with cord: 89 cm; 35 1/32 in