Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

Made:: 1898 in England

designer:: Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, designed or used by Sir Oliver Lodge, England, 1898. Paper label stuck round tube marked in handwriting ’15 / Dec 23 / 1898’.

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Details

Category:: Radio Communication

Object Number:: 1942-40/17

Materials:: glass, metal (unknown)

type:: coherer

taxonomy:

component - object
radio receiver

credit:: Donated by E. E. and T. H. Robinson

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