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

Inventory Number 57736


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.57736

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
Primary inscriptions
"PATENT / NO 567850" on side of copper cylinder.
Object type
Radio communication
Dimensions
Diameter: 700mm Height: 600mm
Inventory No
57736
Accession Number
2004-9/130

Description

Potentiometer for Marconi Five-Valve Receiver, with steel terminal and unattached wire on bakelite? surface upon upper surface of copper cylinder, with brass? base. Previously catalogued and associated with Marconi Five-Valve Receiver (Inv. Num. 71494).