- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by the Marconi Corporation.
- Primary inscriptions
- None
- Object type
- Radio communication
- Dimensions
- Height: 265mm Width: 425mm Depth: 509mm
- Inventory No
- 87142
- Accession Number
- 2004-9/118
Description
Tuned Field Transmitter, with copper alloy spark gap and tuned circuit on mahogany and ebonite flat case containing sixteen (of eighteen) horizontal Leyden jars. It was tuned by a bank of Leyden-jar capacitors and was driven by an induction coil on which the Morse key was mounted. Previously catalogued with Induction Coil (Inv. Num. 30667).
This was one of the first portable wireless transmitters for use by the Army. It was tuned by a bank Leiden-jar capacitors and was driven by an induction coil on which the Morse was mounted.
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