• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries

• Year
• 1936/1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 32992

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• Number of Tubes
• 4

• Valves / Tubes
• 6A7 6F7 41 80

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 456 kHz

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast (MW), Police, sometimes also early TV (75-200m).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Power out
• 3.5 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 417 Rhythm Baby - Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks

• Shape
• Tablemodel, Tombstone = decorative upright, not cathedral but can have rounded edges.

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 9 x 11.44 x 7.25 inch / 229 x 291 x 184 mm

• Notes
• The Arvin model 417 Rhythm Baby with 4 3/16 inch dial covers 545 - 81 meters in two bands: 550 - 1600 kc broadcast and 1500 - 3700 kc including amateur, police, commercial airway. One electrodynamic speaker 5 inch. 2-gang condenser. Cabinet in rich-grained walnut with pencil-striped mahogany and satin wood.
  
  Rider's shows that the chassis has been published 1936 (or before). The Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. Catalog of 1937 features this model as E-417 Rhythm Baby and sets a price of $ 44.88 including tubes. Pages 1053 to 1056 show a whole model family for "Rhythm". The family is in that catalog shown with a prefix E- whereas schematics and other ads show the models without this prefix. The "E" could refer to this catalog only since also a storage battery U17 or U175D is here called E-U17 and E-U175D. But we have to add the prefix so that users do find if they put it in.

• Price in first year of sale
• 44.88 $ !

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 7 = 1936 and before

• Mentioned in
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Table Top Radios Vol. 1 Stein 98 (page 38.)

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• Cathedral & Tombstone Radios (page 54.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 695 models, 485 with images and 551 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Arvin, brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries