Object Details
- Marconi
- Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
- Description
- This switch lever was part of RMS Carpathia's wireless radio apparatus; most likely it was a manual breaker for the antenna connection to the radio. It would have been opened in storms to prevent lightning from striking the radio itself. It was damaged during the rescue of Titanic's passengers, and the next time the ship was in Boston, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company employee Harry Cheetham went aboard Carpathia to service the wireless. At the time, shipboard radios belonged to the radio company, not the shipping lines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from Harry R. Chetham
- 1911
- ID Number
- EM.309910
- catalog number
- 309910
- accession number
- 110988
- Object Name
- radio switch
- switch
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 5/8 in x 3/16 in; 25.4 cm x 1.5875 cm x .47625 cm
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Communications
- Transportation
- Titanic
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1335804
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-6742-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
