Capacitor
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- OBJECT TYPE
- PAPER INSULATION
- DATE
- 1915
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1968.0505.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Western Electric
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- ALMINUM FOIL/ WAX PAPER/ SHEET METAL CONTAINER/ TAR FILLED/ INSULATED COPPER LEADS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 12.0 cm
- Width
- 8.5 cm
- Height
- 4.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Telephony
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Western Electric
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Illinois
- City
- Chicago
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1915 TO 1930
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
GENERAL PURPOSE CAPACITOR USED TO PASS ALTERNATING CURRENT (VOICE FREQUENCIES) AND BLOCK DIRECT CURRENT, IN TELEPHONE APPARATUS - Technical
-
TYPICAL EARLY TELEPHONE TYPE CAPACITOR - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- REMAINS OF LABEL READS: 'SPECIAL-CON[?]/ CAPACITY/ Northern El[?]'/ STAMPED IN COVER: 'W[?]TERN ELECTRIC/ PAT[?] IN U.S.A. FEB 9 1915'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- DULL BLACK ENAMEL ON CASE/ BLACK CORDS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Western Electric, Capacitor, circa 1915, Artifact no. 1968.0505, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1968.0505.001/
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