Signedon front, top center: TRADE (GREBE RADIO logo) MARK / RICHMOND HILL, N.Y. / TYPE RORK / SERIAL NO. 904
FunctionAmplifying audio output from tuner/detector
Historical AttributesThis RORK amplifier would have been used in association with the Grebe CR-8 receiver. The pair is a good example of what an early radio experimenter would have had. This set came from a Mr. G. M. Hawes (Harvard AB 1910) of 24 Westland Avenue, Boston, who gave it to the Cruft Lab.
ProvenanceG. M. Hawes, Boston, MA; gift to Cruft Laboratory; transfer to CHSI from Cruft attic, 1965.
Related WorksMcMahon Vintage Radio, 94.
Douglas, 2: 56
JT collection of ephemera: manuals that show how RORN or RORK are to be used with the CR-8 receiver.