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Early wireless radio artifacts [realia].
BANC PIC 19xx.031:161--OBJLOCAL
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Title:
Early wireless radio artifactsCreator/Contributor:
Moorhead, Otis B.Date:
ca. 1905-1920 (issued)Subject:
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)Radio -- Equipment and supplies
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Edwin Rasmussen and/or Col. R.B. Wolverton. Accompanying notes indicate items may be a few items from a larger
collection, whereabouts unknown.
Forms part of the Historical Objects Miscellany of The Bancroft Library.
Includes tube described as the first Moorhead tube, exhibited at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, May 1915 (by
maker Otis B. Moorhead). Also includes 14 smaller items, some of which may be U.S. Navy electrolytic detector tips, 1905-1906.
Physical Description:
realia
2 boxes (15 glass tubes and detector tips and 1 wooden box)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 19xx.031:161--OBJLOCAL