For a number of years they had on display the
world's oldest broadcast transmitter, an FM transmitter from 1919 invented in The
Hague by Hanso Idzerda.
Interesting as that would have predated the invention of FM by Edwin Howard Armstrong in
1933 (or at least what we thought was the invention). But notably, vacuum tube technology
that existed in 1919 might be hard-pressed to be up to the task. I look forward to doing
some more research on this topic. Thanks!
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They might also get rid of stuff, not necessarily for an obvious reason. I saw a case of
this recently, in the Dutch museum Boerhaave in Leiden, which is a national
science-related museum. For a number of years they had on display the world's oldest
broadcast transmitter, an FM transmitter from 1919 invented in The Hague by Hanso Idzerda.
Some time recently it was removed from the museum collection. In that case it went back
to the organization it came from, the Picture and Sound Institute, but whether it will be
displayed by them is not clear. In any case, that's an example of the uncertain
future of artefacts in museum collections.
paul