General Information

Serial #

1113615

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal and hard synthetic casing with synthetic knobs, a metal arm and rotating head, a synthetic covered cord and a metal connector at the end.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

26.6 cm

Width

22.7 cm

Height

23.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Communications

Category

Sound

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Bruel Kjaer

Country

Denmark

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1984-1998

Canada

Bell Northern Research, was the research and development subsidiary of Northern Telecom (later Nortel Networks) and Bell Canada. It was built by Northern Telecom at its Trans-Canada plant in Montreal. Northern Telecom and its predecessor, Northern Electric, was for decades Canada’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. Originally a subsidiary of the AT&T-owned Western Electric, for which it manufactured American-designed products for the Canadian market, Northern Electric became Canadian-owned in the 1950s and in the 1960s began to design and produce equipment to meet the distinctive needs of Canadian telecommunication companies. In the 1970s, through its new research subsidiary, Bell Northern Research, the company made a concerted shift from conventional analogue equipment into the emerging field of digital communications, becoming in the 1980s the first equipment supplier to provide a complete line of fully digital switching and transmission gear. During this decade the company moved aggressively into export markets, and opened manufacturing and R&D operations in several countries. The company’s sales soared during the internet boom of the 1990s, but a combination of poor financial decisions and a failure to maintain its technological edge led eventually to its bankruptcy in 2009. The original Bell Northern facilities were designed with cutting edge telecommunications research and development in mind with the first three buildings on the campus featuring laboratories, an extensive research library, and an anechoic chamber. The anechoic chamber was the focal point of the Bell Northern Research acoustics research examining both the technology and placement of speakers and microphones in telecommunication devices. The anechoic chamber group was organized under the Industrial Design and working together with design were responsible for the development of the acoustic properties of most products. (From the Acquisition Proposal, see Ref. 1)

Function

Used to characterize the acoustic properties of rooms where acoustic experiments were conducted. (From the Acquisition Proposal, see Ref. 1)

Technical

Used in conjunction with other Bruel & Kjaer equipment to build an experimental acoustic apparatus. (From the Acquisition Proposal, see Ref. 1)

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On the proper top of the body: "Off/ 64/ 32/ 16/ seconds/revolution"/ On the stickers on the proper top: "nt/ FOR/ INDICATION/ ONLY"/ "Bell-Northern Research [logo]/ L0027357"/ "[logo] BRUEL & KJAER CANADA LTD./ 90 Leacock Road, Pointe Claire, Qué/ MODEL 3923, s.n. 1113615/ VOLT/ HZ/ VA/ PURCHASE/ DATE/ JULY 1984/ FUSE"/ On the proper front of the body: "Rotating Microphone Boom/ Type 3923/ [logo]/ Brüel & Kjaer/ Ext. Power/ Sync."/ On the plates on either side of the arm connected to the body: "L- 27357 [logo]"/ "Brüel & Kjaer/ Type/ 3923/ Serial No./ 1113615/ Made in Denmark"

Missing

The boom extension rods are missing.

Finish

The object has a main cylindrical body that is predominantly black with white markings, and has a green proper top with black markings and white, blie and grey stickers. Connected to the main body are a large, black square arm that is connected at opposite sides of the body and a black rotating head attached at the proper top, where the boom extensions are connected. There is also a long, grey coated cord attached to the body with a large silver coloured metal connector at the end.

Decoration

N/A