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Figure 6

Black and white photograph of equipment used by the BBC engineers in 1924 as installed at Foyle Riding showing a prototype version of the BBC A amplifier with a bank of accumulators below

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The BBC’s prototype ‘A’ microphone amplifier installed in one of the small thatched summer-houses in the Harrisons’ garden, in preparation for the 19 May 1924 broadcast

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150402/017