Radio Nurse Transmitter
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Designer
- Isamu Noguchi, American, 1904–1988
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Brown-burgundy ovoid form suggestive of kerchiefed head or kendo mask; horizontal slits for speaker on the front.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mel Byars
- 1937–38
- Accession Number
- 1991-59-61
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- radio transmitter
- Type
- radio transmitter
- Medium
- Bakelite (TM), metal, electronic components
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (without cord): 19.8 x 17 x 16 cm (7 13/16 x 6 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1991-59-61
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47c175139-8b4d-4f60-8bb3-a057ffe974b1
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