4 results for: Western Electric
Radio Announcing Carbon Microphone used by KOMO, 1927-1930
KOMO radio was founded in 1926 by Birt F. Fisher and O.D. Fisher of Fisher Flouring Mills (no relation between these Fishers). It replaced Seattle radio station KTCL whose lease was expiring. The first broadcast was on December 31, 1926, and the next year the studio moved to downtown Seattle. Today, KOMO 1000 AM and 97.7 FM is primarily an…
ID Number:1954.745.1
Date:Circa 1927
Western Electric 1-B Transmitter Microphone used by KOMO radio, 1927-30
KOMO radio was founded in 1926 by Birt F. Fisher and O.D. Fisher of Fisher Flouring Mills (no relation between these Fishers). It replaced Seattle radio station KTCL whose lease was expiring. The first broadcast was on December 31, 1926, and the next year the studio moved to downtown Seattle. Today, KOMO 1000 AM and 97.7 FM is primarily an…
ID Number:1954.745.9
Date:Circa 1925
Electric hearing aid, ca. 1925
Early electric hearing aids would use a carbon transmitter to amplify weak signal into a stronger one, similar to the technology used in early telephones. This one was made by Western Electric.
ID Number:1973.5728.6
Date:Circa 1925
Phone-Kon-Trole device invented by Morton Clark and Carroll Priestley, ca. 1925
The Phone-Kon-Trole was invented by the donor's great-grandfather, Morton Clark, Sr. in the early 1920s. The device was used with early 20th century rotary phones. These telephones had a lightweight base with a rotary dial, small neck, and cradle for the handset. It took one hand to hold the phone steady and the other hand to dial, leaving no hands…
ID Number:2025.15.1
Date:Circa 1925