Grebe type CR-8 radio receiver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1922
name: label: maker
content: A. H. Grebe & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Grebe Radio / Richmond Hill, N.Y. / Type CR-8 / 150 to 1000 M / Serial No. 1943". Plate: "Licensed Under Armstrong Patent No. 1113149 / For Amateur or Experimental Use Only. / Manufactured Under Grebe Patents Granted and Pending." Specimen is a regenerative detector utilizing a UV201-A triode. Panel controls include grid variometer, antenna coupling and regeneration; multipoint switches for antenna coil, wavelength range change switch, and filament rheostat. Allied Van Lines shipping tag #37 on front panel. Reference: Clymer-Greenwood, page 146. Grebe Catalog, "Short-Wave Regenerative Receivers," 1922.
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.321018
label: catalog number
content: 321018
label: accession number
content: 241556
label: serial number
content: 1943
label: patent number
content: 1113149
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 22 3/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 18.0975 cm x 57.785 cm x 18.415 cm