A.E. Graef Radio Transmitter With Good Western Electric VT-2 Tube & Provenance
$1,500.00
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Unusual and quite fascinating radio transmitter built in the early 1920’s by A.E. Graef of Upper Montclair, NJ.
Little is known about Graef, outside of a mention in a 1925 issue of Radio Retailing, where he’s cited as the co-inventor of the Graefone, a horn loudspeaker whose design resembled that of an outdoor amphitheater.
This transmitter won a ribbon at an AWA conference in the 1970’s and was later sold at an AWA auction. According to the transmitter’s provenance, Graef was a friend of the Adams Morgan Company’s co-founder Paul Godley, who also lived in Upper Montclair and was himself the inventor of the Paragon Regenerative Receiver, the world’s first commercial regenerative radio.
It’s possible that Graef was an employee of Godley’s, because the transmitter is made almost entirely of Paragon parts, and the notes that accompany the transmitter indicate that its circuit is almost identical to that of Paragon’s 2-5-U transmitter, which used two tubes rather than one.
Comes with the provenance pictured, along with a good emissions Western Electric VT-2 tube.
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