Exhibits
The museum has an extensive collection of early domestic radio and wartime communications equipment. Most of the equipment was built in the UK and USA. The museum also houses early advertising and posters. An archive of photographs depicts wartime forces and includes coverage of the building of the Churchill Barriers which were built primarily as naval defences to protect the anchorage at Scapa Flow.
Some examples of exhibits:
- No. 19 Tank Set
- early recording equipment e.g. The Recordon dictating machine made by Thermionic Products Ltd of England - features a flat, magnetically coated paper disk.
- example of 1930s Ardent hearing aid
- a working crystal set (made about 1912) with the crystal/cat's whisker detector clearly visible. Visitors may put the headphones on and listen to BBC Radio Scotland.
- original Scapa Flow boom defence chart
- U boat radio
- spy Suitcase Radio
- radios used as Y-stations by Y-service operators
- photographic archive of life in "Fortress Orkney"
- domestic wireless receivers made in the USA by companies such as Emerson Radio, Weston, Philco
- wireless receivers made in the UK by companies such as EKCO.
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