Accession No

4586

Brief Description

3 tuning condensers for radios, one c.1923, two mid-20th C

Origin

Maker

Ormond (4586.1)

Class

electrical

Earliest Date

1920

Latest Date

1970

Inscription Date

Material

metal (steel, white metal); ceramic; plastic (bakelite, cellophane and at least one other)

Dimensions

4586.1 height 145mm; length 97mm; breadth 82mm 4586.2 length 46mm; breadth 40mm; height 65mm (2 objects)

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge, on 23/01/1997.

Inscription

‘ENGINEERING
“ORMOND”
COMPANY’ (on 4586.1)

Description Notes

4586.1 Variable capacitor with 10 blades and one ‘fine tune’ blade. Blades attached to a circular scale divided 0 - 180˚, numbered by 20˚, subdivided to 2. Screw terminals at base . Mechanism held in bakelite framework.

4586.2 2 variable capacitors with no scale; 6 double blades in square ceramic framework. In original cellophane wrappings.

Condition good; complete.

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