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Marconi Five-Valve Receiver, by Marconi Company, London, 1922

Inventory Number 71494


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.71494

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
"THE MARCONI / SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT CO. LTD. / LONDON / REG. P.O.NO 0502 / NO 765" on sloping vertical panel.
Object type
Radio communication
Dimensions
Height: 500mm Width: 430mm Depth: 300mm
Inventory No
71494
Accession Number
2004-9/129

Description

Marconi Five-Valve Receiver, with contacts for five D.E.V. valves (marked "H.F.", "H.F." "RECTIFIER" and "NOTE MAGNIFIERS"). With anode and aerial inductance dials (both scales 1-10), two aerial tuning condenser knobs (both scales 0-90), and other assorted Bakelite? and ebonite dials. Assorted dials include potentiometer H.F. valves (missing), filament h.f. valves, detector filament, note magnifier filaments, reaction coupling (all scales 0-50); additional switches for note magnifiers (0,1,2), output (phones, loud speaker), on/off switch and valve switch (1,2). Controls are on sloping ebonite? vertical panel with two 'phones sockets, and is enclosed by doors in teak case. With holes for missing terminals on top; plugs on side for High Tension battery and Low Tension accumulator and connections for Loudspeaker. One potentiometer detached, lacking valves and external terminals. Previously associated and catalogued with Potentiometer For Marconi Five-Valve Receiver (Inv. Num. 57736).