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Frank Conrad with Shallenberger meter at exhibit for Ford Museum

1929

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Frank Conrad with Shallenberger meter at exhibit for Ford Museum
  • Title
  • Frank Conrad with Shallenberger meter at exhibit for Ford Museum
  • Creator
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  • Date
  • 1929
  • Identifier
  • 20170320-hpichswp-0072
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP424_B002_F005_I01
  • Description
  • Frank Conrad stands with a Shallenberger meter at an exhibit of Westinghouse machinery created for the Ford Museum. The contents of the exhibit, amounting to 600 items, were donated to Henry Ford's museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Caption reads: "Frank Conrad with the first meter at the Ford Exhibit. Dr. Frank Conrad, chief engineer for Westinghouse and recognized as the originator of radio broadcasting, is shown with the first Shallenberger meter and one of the 1929 models." Note: The portrait of Shallenberger is pasted onto the original photograph of Conrad at the exhibit.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
    Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
    Conrad, Frank, 1874-1941.
    Shallenberger, Oliver B., 1860-1898.
  • Source
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs, 1886-1996, MSP 424, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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