Beacon
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- OBJECT TYPE
- EMERGENCY LOCATOR TRANSMITTER
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1989.0450.001
- MANUFACTURER
- DOC
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, HANDLE, PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS, POWER CORD & CABLE COVERINGS, PARTS/ PAPER LABEL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 30.5 cm
- Width
- 19.5 cm
- Height
- 11.4 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Communications
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Communications CA
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
EMERGENCY LOCATOR TRANSMITTER MADE BY OR FOR, & USED BY, CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT. - Function
-
NON-PORTABLE EMERGENCY LOCATOR BEACON. WHEN ACTIVATED, IT TRANSMITS SIGNAL TO ORBITING SATELLITE; SIGNAL IS RELAYED TO GROUND TERMINAL WHICH LOCATES & IDENTIFIES SIGNALING BEACON. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- TEXTURED TURQUOISE BLUE PAINTED CASING WITH BRUSHED METAL FRONT/ PLATED PARTS/ BLACK & RED CONTROLS/ BLACK POWER CORD/ YELLOW & BLACK CONNECTOR CABLE/ WHITE PAPER LABEL
- Decoration
- N/A
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DOC, Beacon, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1989.0450, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1989.0450.001/
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