Orkney Wireless Museum |
KW15 1LB Kirkwall, Orkney, Grossbritannien (UK) (Scotland) |
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Anschrift |
1 Junction Road
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Ausstellungsfläche | - leider noch nicht bekannt |
Öffnungszeiten
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April - September: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 4:30pm; Sunday 2:30pm - 4,30pm | ||||
Stand von 01/2017
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We don't know the fees. Preise sind uns nicht bekannt. |
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Homepage | www.owm.org.uk |
Lage / Anfahrt |
Orkney ist ein aus etwa 70 kleineren und der Hauptinsel Mainland bestehender, zu Schottland gehörender Archipel. Er liegt nördlich von Caithness in Sichtweite der schottischen Nordküste, von ihr durch den Pentland Firth getrennt. |
Beschreibung | The Wireless and Radio Transmissions Museum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Exhibits The museum has an extensive collection of early domestic radio and wartime communications equipment. Most of the equipment was built in the UK and USA. The museum also houses early advertising and posters. An archive of photographs depicts wartime forces and includes coverage of the building of the Churchill Barriers which were built primarily as naval defences to protect the anchorage at Scapa Flow. Some examples of exhibits: No. 19 Tank Set early recording equipment e.g. The Recordon dictating machine made by Thermionic Products Ltd of England - features a flat, magnetically coated paper disk. example of 1930s Ardent hearing aid a working crystal set (made about 1912) with the crystal/cat's whisker detector clearly visible. Visitors may put the headphones on and listen to BBC Radio Scotland. original Scapa Flow boom defence chart U boat radio spy Suitcase Radio radios used as Y-stations by Y-service operators photographic archive of life in "Fortress Orkney" domestic wireless receivers made in the USA by companies such as Emerson Radio, Weston, Philco wireless receivers made in the UK by companies such as EKCO. |
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