LSSM is chasing this, was Re: General Data? Computer

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> 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