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The Western Historic Radio Museum, in a 1876 Italianate-Victorian house, features vintage radio equipment and memorabilia. The museum displays antique, classic and vintage radios featuring examples of the earliest wireless spark-gap apparatus up to the "kitsch" radios of the early fifties. Included in each display are many other types of radio-related items, such as horn speakers, cone speakers and a mirad of other early radio accessories. There is also a display devoted to early vacuum tubes. Broadcast microphones, Vibroplex telegraph keys, and early electrical instruments are on display. Photographs of famous radio personalities are featured throughout the museum.
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Location:
PO Box 511, 109 South F Street, Virginia City Nevada 89440
Telephone
775-847-9047
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