Welcome to the vintage wireless page. The following
photos are some of the early radio equipment SPARC has on display.
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early portable spark transmitter/receiver,
maker unknown.
early Marconi of Canada Ltd tuner,detector
and amplifier used at the Bamfield cable station on Vancouver Island.
bank of Leyden jars. They act
like capacitors, value is 12 jars. Used with a tapped inductance called
a jigger to resonate the antenna.
receiver from Canadian Independant
Telephone Co.
Marconi of Canada MST,MSA tuner-amplifier combination.
This is our original Marconi equipment
in the Titanic radio room of the 1996 George C. Scott television movie
"Titanic". Unfortunately this room went down with the ship. We did manage
to retain the Carpathia radio room and it houses our spark collection.
very rare Canadian Marconi 2843 receiver.
Uses 8 galena crystals. Complete and working.
Marconi triple turret tuner
Marconi magnetic detector
Universal Receiver manufactured by
Canadian Government Radio Service
Syntonizer from Royal Naval Air Service -1914
A view of the Carpathia room with our vintage wireless
equipment
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