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Radio -- Equipment and supplies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Radio attenuators; Radio compass; Radio detectors; Radio direction finders; Radio lines; Radio rectifiers; Radio transmitters and transmission; Telegraph keys; Transmit-receive tubes; Transponders; Wave guides.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Allen D. Cardwell Manufacturing Corporation records

 Collection
Accession: 2333
Abstract:

The Allen D. Cardwell Manufacturing Corporation was a major producer of radio and telecommunications equipment during the twentieth century. Cardwell sold its products to the United States Government, major corporations, and individual consumers. The records contain technical information such as patents and design drawings, as well as a vast array of sales and promotional material from the 1920s.

Dates: 1897-1960; Majority of material found within 1920-1960

Carl G. Dietsch papers

 Collection
Accession: 2759
Abstract:

Carl George Dietsch (1900-1978) was an electrical engineer who specialized in shortwave radio transmitters. He supervised the construction of radio stations for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) from the 1930s to the 1960s, including locations in Brazil, Argentina, the Philippines, Japan, and Morocco. This collection consists of materials relating to Dietsch’s projects for RCA and NBC, particularly concerning the construction of a radio station in Tangier, Morocco, as well as the World War II Voice of America project in Dixon, California. The bulk of the collection material spans from the 1920s to the 1960s, with some later material from Dietsch’s time as a private engineering consultant. The collection includes correspondence, patent material, trade catalogs and publications, manuscript material, photographs and negatives, blueprints, diazotypes, audiovisual material, and drafting tools. This collection would be useful to researchers interested in shortwave radio station construction.

Dates: 1908-1978

Frederick O. Barnum III collection of RCA Victor Company negatives

 Collection
Accession: 1995-220
Abstract:

For over fifty years the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the Victor Talking Machine Company merged in 1929 becoming the RCA Victor Company in 1930. This merger allowed RCA to consolidate the research, engineering, manufacturing and sales of RCA products. This collection consists of negatives, a majority of which feature sound and television equipment manufactured by RCA. These images include phonographs, radios, radio-phonograph combinations, records, speakers, amplifiers, microphones, facsimile machines, televisions, equipment involved in the transmission and reception of television and radio waves, radio equipment created for use by government agencies and motion picture equipment.

Dates: circa 1930-1977

General Radio Company history

 Collection
Accession: 2416
Abstract:

The General Radio Company was incorporated in 1915, in Cambridge, Massachussets by Melville Eastham (1885-1964), and was famed for their development and manufacture of electronic instruments, test equipment, laboratory standards throughout the twentieth century. The General Radio Company History materials largely document the efforts to write a synthetic history of the General Radio Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s, supported by the IEEE History Center. While Joseph F. Keithley headed the project, it was conceived as a collaborative endeavor with various persons each writing a chapter on their topic of specialty. Additionally, there is a large binder labeled, “Company Data” containing alphabetically organized information about other firms involved in the manufacture and development of precision measuring instruments over the course of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1987-2007; Majority of material found within 1987-1993

Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor Division secretary's records

 Collection
Accession: 2658
Abstract:

For over fifty years the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. This collection contains the records from the Secretary's Office of the Victor Talking Machine Company and its successors RCA Victor Company, Inc., and Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. They consist of minutes of the Executive and Management Committees, an internal annual report and two contract files for supplying sound equipment to movie studios.

Dates: 1912-1956

RCA Institutes, Transmitter and Receiver Laboratory manuals

 Collection
Accession: 2864
Abstract:

RCA Institute, Inc. was an electronics school and subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The school specialized in basic electronics and electronics technology; computer technology; and courses for radio, television, and air‐conditioning servicing, as well as its traditional courses in amateur radio‐operator skills. These two educational instructional manuals were bound together. One focuses on RF-I transmitters, while the other concerns RF-II receivers. The laboratory manuals were intended to be guides for students at the RCA Institute in their work in the laboratory. They include questions and experiments to correlate to classroom lectures and practical work. The manuals' copyright dates are 1945 and 1946.

Dates: 1945; 1946

White Motor Company diesel engine generator photographs

 Collection
Accession: 2024-211
Abstract:

The White Motor Company was an automobile, truck, bus, and agricultural tractor manufacturer from 1900 until 1980. The company's White Diesel Engine Division manufactured diesel engine generators, which powered U.S. military equipment and infrastructure. This small collection consists of a set of photographs in a portfolio folder of a diesel generator manufactured for the AT&T Transatlantic Radio Transmitting Station in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Dates: undated