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megaphone

megaphone

Date1920-1930
Inventory Number2006-1-0115
ClassificationMegaphone
Subject
    Attributed to William J. Murdock Company 1896 - 1985
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions31.8 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm (12 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionWhat appears to be a piece of bakelite (or plastic?) has been shaped into a cone and is held together by silvered rivets. A circular piece of metal with tightening screws is at the smaller end of the megaphone. It was most likely fixed on another acoustic instrument to amplify the sound it produced, such as WJ0158.
          Signedunsigned
          megaphone
          megaphone
          American
          Date: 1900-1930
          Object number: WJ0157
          speaker for phonograh or radio
          speaker for phonograh or radio
          William J. Murdock Company
          Date: 1920-1930
          Object number: WJ0158
          megaphone
          megaphone
          American
          Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
          Object number: 1998-1-0870
          solid receiver
          solid receiver
          William J. Murdock Company
          Date: circa 1900
          Object number: 8076
          Green wooden storage box containing headphones, telephone transmitters
          Green wooden storage box containing headphones, telephone transmitters
          William J. Murdock Company
          Date: 1910-1950
          Object number: RS0163
          coil
          coil
          William J. Murdock Company
          Accessories: 2 metal discs.
          Object number: RS0897
          Box of 9 Condensers by Murdock
          Box of 9 Condensers by Murdock
          William J. Murdock Company
          Object number: RS0822
          Unknown communication instrument
          Unknown communication instrument
          William J. Murdock Company
          Object number: RS0307
          two headphones removed from green wooden storage box containing headphones
          two headphones removed from green wooden storage box containing headphones
          William J. Murdock Company
          Date: 1910-1950
          Object number: RS0163a
          electrical machine glass pieces
          electrical machine glass pieces
          Central Scientific Company
          Date: early 20th Century
          Accessories: 4 glass discs with holes, 3 broken pieces of an electrostatic plate; 2 halves of an older electrostatic plate; 4 large broken glass pieces
          Object number: 1997-1-0695
          Wimshurst electrostatic machine
          Wimshurst electrostatic machine
          F. Leclercq
          Date: circa 1879
          Object number: DW0005
          wooden reed pipe, D
          wooden reed pipe, D
          W. Ladd & Company
          Date: circa 1876
          Accessories: two varnished pine prisimatic resonators, 1998-1-0218b and 1998-1-0218c
          Object number: 1998-1-0218a