Amplification — #6507
Western Electric 143-W “Receiver”
1901The part you hold to your ear
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Amplification — #6443
Robert Von Lieben
1912First tube amplifier (2 years before vacuum)
No image
Amplification — #6481
French TM Type R tube
1920sNo description.
Amplification — #6515
SG Brown Ltd.
1924Mechanical microphone amplifier exterior
Amplification — #6521
SG Brown Ltd.
1924Mechanical microphone amplifier interior
Amplification — #6477
Cunningham SX-301A
1925Vacuum tube
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Amplification — #6474
Penta Laboratories PL-4-400A Transmitter tube
1955No description.
Amplification — #6465
General Electronics DR-300
1963Vacuum tube
Amplification — #6457
International Electronics
1978-9833-C transmitter tube
Amplification — #6487
Bang & Olufsen Power ICE amplification module
1999-2001No description.
Amplification — #6452
KR Audio Kronzilla T-1610
2020Largest audio amplification tube
No image
Graphic Prints — #6905
Electric Tomatoes by Olney & Floyd
1906-15No description.
Graphic Prints — #6900
“Good Things To Eat from out of the Air” 136 tested radio recipes
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6868
Radio Foods Corp. – Diced Carrots / Soup
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6879
Radio Foods Corp. – Crushed Pineapple
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6889
Radio Foods Corp. – Unsweetened Evaporated Milk
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6892
Radio Foods Corp. – Pineapple Sticks
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6895
Radio Foods Corp. – Pineapple Juice
1932No description.
Graphic Prints — #6884
Radio Foods Corp. – Sliced Yellow Elberta Peaches
1930sNo description.
Graphic Prints — #6897
Radio Foods Corp. – Nal-Pac Bartlett Pears
1930sNo description.
Graphic Prints — #6876
Whitewater Flour Mills – 6 lb. bag Radio Flower
1930sNo description.
Graphic Prints — #6886
Radio Foods Corp. – Fancy Crab Meat
1945No description.
Graphic Prints — #6874
Radio Foods Corp. – Orange Juice
1945No description.
Graphic Prints — #6903
Sound Beauty Chum Salmon / Washington Fish Co, Seattle
1950sNo description.
Microphone Collection — #6088
Western Electric 600A/1A
1922Double Button Carbon mic (front)
Microphone Collection — #6111
RCA 4-AP
1929Condenser mic (right side)
Microphone Collection — #6113
RCA 4-AP
1929Condenser mic (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6116
RCA 4-AP
1929Condenser mic (left side)
Microphone Collection — #6120
RCA PB-90
1932Ribbon mic (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6122
RCA PB-90
1932Ribbon mic (side)
Microphone Collection — #6126
Shure 40-C
1932Condenser (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6135
RTF/VEB CM-7151
1936Neumann design – Leipzig (front) Neumann Bayonet mount capsule – Gefel (front)
Microphone Collection — #6136
RTF/VEB Neumann
1936(back)
Microphone Collection — #6145
Western Electric 639-A
1938Dynamic/Ribbon (back)
Microphone Collection — #6147
Western Electric 639-A
1938Dynamic/Ribbon (side)
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Microphone Collection — #6163
(All Technical) Altec 639-B
1939-50sDynamic/Ribbon (front)
Microphone Collection — #6155
Telefunken Ela M-102
1936Dynamic handheld (front)
Microphone Collection — #6357
RCA 44-BX
1938“Junior Velocity” ribbon mic (front)
Microphone Collection — #6169
Altec 213
1950“Performer” handheld for TV (front)
Microphone Collection — #6186
ElectroVoice 664
mid1950s“Buchannan Hammer” in gold (side)
Microphone Collection — #6187
ElectroVoice 664
mid1950s“Buchannan Hammer” in gold (top)
Microphone Collection — #6210
AKG D-19
1957cardioid dynamic “Ringo mic”
Microphone Collection — #6195
AKG D-88
1960sStereo Dynamic mic (front)
Microphone Collection — #6306
Grundig GDM-121
1960sDesk mic (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6310
Grundig GDM-121
1960sDesk mic (side) Pleases flip end for end
Microphone Collection — #6176
Olson M-102
1960sNo description.
Microphone Collection — #6277
Reslo RBH
1961-66Ribbon mic (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6279
Reslo RBH
1961-66Ribbon mic (side)
Microphone Collection — #6214
Sennheiser MD-211 Please flip end for end
1962No description.
Microphone Collection — #6282
Altec 687-B
1964Desk mic
Microphone Collection — #6339
Shure SM-58
1966-currentDynamic wireless handheld flip end for end
Microphone Collection — #6363
AKG D-200E
1970Dynamic
Microphone Collection — #6290
Schoeps M-222
1973MK-41 collette condenser (front)
Microphone Collection — #6257
Calrec CM-4050
1978“Soundfield” ambisonic mic (front)
Microphone Collection — #6267
Calrec
1978“Soundfield” matrix controller (front)
Microphone Collection — #6269
Calrec
1978“Soundfield” matrix controller (back)
Microphone Collection — #6226
Nady HT-3
1981First Wireless Handheld
Microphone Collection — #6225
Nady Pro-410
1981First Wireless mic Receiver (front)
No image
Microphone Collection — #6403
Neumann U-87
1986Condenser (front)
Microphone Collection — #6393
Neumann U-87
1986Condenser (open) Please flip end for end
Microphone Collection — #6396
Neumann U-87
1986Electronics close-up
Microphone Collection — #6374
audio-technica AT-813a
1991Cardioid condenser (front)
Microphone Collection — #6315
Oktava MK-319
1993Condenser (front)
Microphone Collection — #6343
ElectroVoice N/D767a
1998Dynamic mic (front)
Microphone Collection — #6342
ElectroVoice N/D767a
1998Dynamic mic (back)
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Microphone Collection — #6384
Rode NT-3
2000Condenser (front)
Phonograph Collection — #6841
Photograph of Edouard Leon Scott De Martinville’s “Phonautograph”
1859No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6848
Edison’s original phonograph
1877No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6704
Tin foil recording
1877No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6836
Harper’s Weekly “Tin Foil Phonograph”
1878 March 30No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6845
Civil War photographer Mathew Brady of Thomas Edison showing at Smithsonian
1878No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6721
Edison (1877) and Berliner (1887) phonographs
1890sNo description.
Phonograph Collection — #6852
Emile Berliner flat disc gramophone (70 rpm) manufactured in Washington, DC
1893No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6415
Edison
1902Cylinder record sleeve
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Phonograph Collection — #6417
Edison
1902Cylinder record sleeve
Phonograph Collection — #6424
Edison Cylinder record
1902No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6700
Pathe Freres “Disque Pathe” (90-100 rpm)
1905No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6839
Scientific American – featuring Thomas Edison
1909 Feb 27No description.
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Phonograph Collection — #6437
Nipper – Originally EMI in England, then RCA in the U.S.
Year unknownNo description.
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Phonograph Collection — #6765
Victor model VV405 – 78 records left, horn on right (front)
1923No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6771
Victor VV405 – combination acoustic and electric (top)
1923No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6761
Victor Talking Machine Co, model: VV830 Credenza – best acoustic player (front)
1925No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6757
Victor VV830 Credenza – acoustical horn designed by Bell Labs (top view)
1925No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6759
Victor VV830 Credenza – sound box and beginning of horn (close-up)
1925No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6805
Zenith S-11468 Cobra-Matic – record changer
1948No description.
Phonograph Collection — #7072
Cecil Watts model MK11-A “Parastat” – record cleaning brush
1965No description.
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Phonograph Collection — #7095
Marantz SLT-12 – Straight line tracking turntable
1966No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6790
Thorens TD-125 – with Rabco SL-8E straight line tracking arm (front)
1968No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6788
Thorens TD-125 – with Rabco SL-8E straight line tracking arm (top)
1968No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6783
Thorens TD-125 Mk II turntable – with SME tonearm (front)
1972No description.
Phonograph Collection — #6785
Thorens TD-125 Mk II turntable – with SME tonearm (top)
1972No description.
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Phonograph Collection — #7092
Bang & Olufsen 4002 – Straight line tracking turntable
1974No description.
Phonograph Collection — #7085
Clearaudio – Goldfinger 24k phono cartridge
2006No description.
Phonograph Collection — #7076
Lyra Atlas – phono cartridge
2012No description.
Recorded Media — #6556
Talking Books – back side 78rpm record in the shape and image of an Elephant
1919No description.
Recorded Media — #6558
Talking Books – back side 78rpm record in the shape and image of a Lion
1919No description.
Recorded Media — #6561
Speak-O-Phone – Record yourself on an aluminum disc
1950sNo description.
Recorded Media — #6562
Speak-O-Phone – two different sizes of aluminum discs.
1950sNo description.
Movie Records — #6570
Old MacDonald Had A Farm M-3
1961No description.
Movie Records — #6571
Little White Duck M-4
1961No description.
Movie Records — #6573
Sidewalks of New York M-7
1956No description.
Movie Records — #6572
Bicycle Built For Two M-8
1956No description.
Movie Records — #6566
Syncopated Clock M-31
1956No description.
Movie Records — #6567
Circus Days M-32
1956No description.
Other Records — #6601
Emile Berliner Gramophone “Sally to our Alley”
1897No description.
Other Records — #6605
Gramophone with Angel
1902-4No description.
Other Records — #6603
Disque Pour Gramophone 30099x
1903-4No description.
Other Records — #6580
Little Wonder “Down in Little Bom Bombay” #212
1916No description.
Other Records — #6582
Little Wonder on aluminum “Down in Little Bombay” #212
1916No description.
Other Records — #6607
Gitanes-Vizir cigarette pack record
1934No description.
Other Records — #6584
Packard-Bell Phonocord home recording
1940No description.
Other Records — #6586
Miss Alaire Young on Packard-Bell
1940No description.
Other Records — #6592
Miss Heylett Biem 245 – side 1
1940No description.
Other Records — #6590
Miss Heylett Biem 245 – side 2
1940No description.
Other Records — #6597
First Recording of the Pope
1948No description.
Other Records — #6575
Teddy “Ah! Le Bon Saint Nicolas” T3161-A
1950sNo description.
Other Records — #6574
Teddy “Noel” T3161-B
1950sNo description.
Other Records — #6576
Golden “The Ballad of Davey Crockett D-197 B
1954No description.
Other Records — #6577
Golden “Davey Crockett” Part II D-197 B
1954No description.
Other Records — #6594
3 Italian Boys Orphanage “Merry Christmas”
1960sNo description.
Other Records — #6595
Buon Natale 3 children in Chapel
1960sNo description.
Other Records — #7003
Bernstein’s West Side Story on DGG in original CD blister-pack
1986No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6613
Bhutan History, in Bhutanese – red – 10 ch (play)
1973No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6617
Bhutan History, in English – blue – 1.25 NU (play)
1973No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6618
Bhutan Airmail – purple – 3 NU (play)
1973No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6619
Bhutan Folk Song #1 – Black – 7 NU (play)
1973No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6621
Bhutan Folk Song #2 – white – 8 NU (play)
1973No description.
Bhutanese Stamp-Records — #6624
Bhutan Airmail – yellow – 9 NU (play)
1973No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6647
Western Electric model 581A (“Receiver”) driver (side)
1928-9No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6651
Western Electric model 581A (“Receiver”) driver (throat)
1928-9No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6660
RCA midrange horn driver
1938No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6642
Western Electric model 713B (“receiver”) driver
1941-2No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6639
Fane Acoustics Ltd. model 601 “Ionofane” ionic tweeter (mouth)
1965No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6640
Fane Acoustics Ltd. model 601 “Ionofane” ionic tweeter (side)
1965No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6638
Fane Acoustics Ltd. model 601 “Ionofane” ionic tweeter (back)
1965No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6632
Prof Josef Merhaut (Technical Univ of Prague) Electrostatic horn driver (front)
1968No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6633
Prof Josef Merhaut electrostatic horn driver (back)
1968No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6635
Prof Josef Merhaut electrostatic horn driver (end)
1968No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6683
Dr. Oskar Heil AMT-1 Air Motion Transformer (front)
‘73-08No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6680
Dr. Oskar Heil AMT-1 Air Motion Transformer (back)
’73-08No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6665
JBL LE-85 cast aluminum exponential (conical) midrange horn (side)
1976No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6668
JBL LE-85 cast aluminum exponential (conical) midrange horn (cutaway)
1976No description.
Speaker Driver Collection — #6685
Atlas Sound model PD60AT midrange driver (side)
1985No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6854
Acoustical physics, J.G. Heck “Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, etc”
1850No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7035
Ferracute’s Oberlin Smith Inventor of Magnetic Recording (amber)
1888No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7037
Ferracute’s Oberlin Smith Inventor of Magnetic Recording (blue)
1888No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6708
Carnegie Hall
1891No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6713
Alfredo Zayas, President of the Republic of Cuba, broadcasting from Havana office
1923No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6727
FADAndrea Do It Yourself construction of Hazeltine AM receiver
1923No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6865
National Broadcasting Bldg, 711 Fifth Avenue (beginning of Networks)
1927No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6832
Recording the MGM Lion roar
1928No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6862
(H.H.) Scott News (Vol. 9, #3) New Studio in Los Angeles
1936 AprNo description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6687
RCA “Fantasound” manual for 2 yr. travelling Disney movie “Fantasia” Instructions (only copy in the world)
1940No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6694
World Broadcasting System 16” Electrical Transcription, W-E vertical 33.1/3 Disc 178 (recorded in-out) with Kitty Kallen / Mary Kaye Trio
1940sNo description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6706
Winston Churchill at 5 microphones, Waldorf Astoria, NYC
1946 March 15No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6792
Fairchild model 620 6 channel mixer (David Greisinger) front
1947No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6795
Fairchild model 620 6 channel mixer (back)
1947No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6857
EMI model BTR-1 Tape Recorder
1948No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6746
Gabor Kornel Tolnai – Stockholm instrumentation (digital) tape recorder
1950sNo description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6778
Ampex 350 10” reel-to-reel tape recorder with Lang LRP-1C electronics
1953No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6820
McIntosh Record Compensator pre-amplifier
1955No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6825
McIntosh MR-55 AM / FM tuner
1957No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6802
Karg Labs “Tunematic” with NYC FM station call-letters, not frequencies
1958No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6860
Ferrograph reel-to-reel tape recorder
1959No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6828
Richard Burden “Phantodyne” AM Stereo Matrix
1961No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6742
Ampex console stereo, AM/FM and reel-to-reel tape recorder (front view)
1965No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6740
Ampex console stereo, AM/FM and reel-to-reel tape recorder (top view)
1965No description.
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Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6717
Italian 2,000 Lire celebrating Guglielmo Marconi / obverse: his wireless invention
1969No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6724
Bill Hanley’s audio console for the Woodstock Music Festival photograph
1969No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6817
Tandberg model 3300X stereo reel-to-reel tape deck
1973No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7052
BASF DP26 Low noise High output reel-to-reel tape 5”
1977No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7058
BASF DP26 LH Super 730m / 2400ft.
1977No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7054
BASF LP35 LH Super 540m / 1800 ft.
1978No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6808
Shure C/PEK-3 Stereo Cartridge Analyzer
1978No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #7062
BASF
1981-7IEC Chrome Bias primary reference (calibration) tape
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6812
Garfield Electronics “Dr. Click Rhythm Controller”2channel electronic metronome
1982No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6775
Soundtracs FMX Series 12 channel console
1988No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6751
Velodyne model H6S-10CA subwoofer (side view)
1994No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6754
Velodyne model H6S-10CA subwoofer (back)
1994No description.
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6429
L. Manno
2018Building Blocks of the Electronics Industry
Illustrations, Instructional Material & Miscellaneous — #6432
L. Manno
2018Silicon wafer BBotEI
Radio Collection — #6947
Emerson AU-190 green Catalin (marbled resin) tabletop radio
1937No description.
Radio Collection — #6943
Crosley “Magic Mood” transistor ‘book’ radio (end)
1955No description.
Radio Collection — #6944
Crosley “Magic Mood” transistor ‘book’ radio (interior)
1955No description.
Radio Collection — #7020
Lafayette Micro Super AM radio
1958No description.
Radio Collection — #6957
The All-American Emerson 555 ‘Nevabreak” Pocket Radio (salmon)
1959No description.
Radio Collection — #6971
Emerson 555 in green and red
1959No description.
Radio Collection — #6988
Columbia “Transistor Six”
1959No description.
Radio Collection — #6933
General Electric 10 Transistor radio
1965-7No description.
Radio Collection — #6930
Radio Shack weather radio
1970sNo description.
Radio Collection — #6917
Coca-Cola transistor radio (front & back)
1970-9No description.
Radio Collection — #7030
Tandy Radio Shack trio (L to R): Realistic Time Cube / Weatheradio cube / older weather radio
1975-80No description.
Radio Collection — #7039
both together
Year unknownNo description.
Radio Collection — #7000
Tandy Corp. red Radio Shack transistor portable
1979No description.
Radio Collection — #7016
Heinz Tomato Ketchup radio (front)
1980No description.
Radio Collection — #7017
Heinz Tomato Ketchup radio (back)
1980No description.
Radio Collection — #6996
Proton 100 FM Stereo Receiver (portable radio with case)
1982-5No description.
Radio Collection — #7023
Proton 320 AM/FM clock radio
1982-9No description.
Radio Collection — #6919
Tropicana Orange transistor radio
1985-92No description.
Radio Collection — #6921
Kieth Haring 3-eyes smiling transistor radio (front)
1985No description.
Radio Collection — #6924
Kieth Haring 3-eyes smiling transistor radio (side)
1985No description.
Radio Collection — #6911
Grado HP1 headphones (with polarity switches)
1989No description.
Radio Collection — #6976
Sony Discman portable player
1989No description.
Radio Collection — #7066
Scotch EG T-120 videocassette tape
1989-93No description.
Radio Collection — #7012
Conair Sound Therapy Travel System
1990sNo description.
Radio Collection — #6993
Bloomberg WBBR1130 captive station portable
1992No description.
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Radio Collection — #and
Bloomberg AM1130 captive station portable
1992No description.
Radio Collection — #6978
Panasonic RQ-SW44V AM/FM/Cassette sport player
1997-9No description.
Radio Collection — #7005
Aiwa HS-TX427 AM/FM/SW Tuner
1999No description.
Radio Collection — #6982
Transistor AM/FM Radio
2000sNo description.
No image
Radio Collection — #6968
Next Play NR695S am/fm clock-radio (front)
2000-5No description.
Radio Collection — #6965
Next Play NR695S am/fm clock-radio (back)
2000-5No description.
Radio Collection — #6950
Motorola “Radius” CP-200 UHF walkie-talkie
2003-14No description.
Radio Collection — #6935
Apple iPod music player
2004No description.
Radio Collection — #7010
Insignia “Presidian” CD/AM/FM portable
2006-9No description.
Radio Collection — #6955
iHome transistor portable radio with 5-band EQ
2011-13No description.
Radio Collection — #6927
Jan Partners Manhattan skyline transistor radio
2014No description.