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The Philadelphia History Museum was a public history museum located in Center City, Philadelphia from 1938 until 2018. From 1938 until 2010, the museum was known as the Atwater Kent Museum. The museum
Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent from south
A. Atwater Kent
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Arthur Atwater Kent Sr. was an American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia. In 1905, he invented the Unisparker which combined ignition points, condenser, centrifugal adva
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…through the efforts of Philadelphia Mayor S. Davis Wilson, Frances Wistar, president of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, and A. Atwater Kent, radio pioneer and inventor. In 1938 Kent purchased the former Franklin Institute building, which the Institute had vacated in 1933, and gifted the…
Kent in 1925
Ad for an Atwater Kent Radio receiver in the Ladies' Home Journal (September, 1926)
Ad for Atwater Kent Radio Model 35, 1927