Electro Importing Co. electrolytic detector
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Electro Importing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "E.I. Co. / N.Y." Contacts labeled "+" and "-". White soapstone(?) base with plastic stand holding a metal arm and upper contact. Lower contact disc and two binding posts mounted on base. A glass ampoule with a metal end cap was found with the piece. An inner glass rod is attached to the metal cap. (Glass top is broken near tip.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.320864
label: catalog number
content: 320864
label: accession number
content: 241556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Detector
label: Object Name
content: electrolytic detector
label: Other Terms
content: Detector; Components; Radio and Television; Radio and Television
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 6.35 cm x 10.795 cm