Gilbert model 4004-T "Wireless Telegraph Outfit": Museum Object and Cultural History
Gilbert model 4004-T "Wireless Telegraph Outfit": date made: ca 1920. date made: ca. 1920. Associated Name: A. C. Gilbert Company.
The object in the museum catalogue
An early radio practice set used as an introduction to radio technology and Morse code. Includes two send-receive stations, each with a key, buzzer, cat's whisker detector, and connectors for ground, aerial, battery and earphones. A Morse code chart is printed on each station. Includes two crystals and two single-piece earphones, four RT&S Co. #328 ceramic insulators, a roll of bare copper wire, and a roll of insulated wire. Penciled note: "Toy Mfgs. of U.S.A. #83"; printed on package: “A. C. Gilbert”, “4004-T Wireless Telegraph Outfit”. Original price $5.00
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1920
- date made: ca. 1920
- Associated Name: A. C. Gilbert Company
- maker: A. C. Gilbert Company
- Object Name: educational toy
- Object Name: wireless key
- Object Name: toy
- Object Name: toy radio key
- Object Name: wireless set
- Measurements: overall: 1 1/2 in x 18 in x 10 in; 3.81 cm x 45.72 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number: 2012.0168.03
- accession number: 2012.0168
- catalog number: 2012.0168.03
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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