• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Federal Radio Corp. / Federal Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Buffalo, NY

• Year
• 1946

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 40384

• • alternative name: Federal Recorder || Federal Tel. & Radio || Federal T&T
  • Brand: Orthosonic / Ortho-Sonic

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 12SA7 12SR7 6SS7 50L6 35Z5

• Main principle
• Superheterodyne (common); ZF/IF 455 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 6 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• AC/DC-set / 110 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Permanent Magnet Dynamic (PDyn) Loudspeaker (moving coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Material
• Catalin (a brand name for a thermosetting polymer popular in the 1930s and 1940s - a phenol formaldehyde resin - like Bakelite, but a two-stage process with a lot of work afterwards).

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: 1024TB - Federal Radio Corp. / Federal

• Shape
• Tablemodel, low profile (big size).

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 13 x 8.75 x 8.5 inch / 330 x 222 x 216 mm

• Notes
• Bunis/Slusser call it black Catalin. Machine Age says Bakelite.

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios (7th Edition)

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 17 = 1948 and before

• Mentioned in
• Machine Age to Jet Age III

• Other Models

• Here you find 202 models, 90 with images and 129 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Federal Radio Corp. / Federal Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Buffalo, NY