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Radius Receiver A chapel style radius receiver, inside it contains a metal sheet with data on the manufacturer and model. These receptors replaced the first galena models until the transistor appeared in the 1940s. The exhibition is associated with a screen in which...

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Shoe sewing machine Shoe Sewing machine Singer brand, model 18-2, with series number G7194501. These machines were built ex professo for all kinds of jobs that in their special form needed a narrow arm, such as the composing of boots, shoes, etc.,In Torrent, a...

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Pianola From 1895 to 1938 approximately, pianoles like this one were made. Pianoles had a mechanical system similar to that of a piano, in fact they could be played as such, but they contained a pneumatic mechanism that allowed the reproduction of musical pieces by...

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Oil lamp The vetlon or oil lamp combines its functional character with the ornament. Made of cast bronze, it has a tank where the oil (low quality) is placed and four arms for which a torçuda or cotton wick was pointed. The polished bronze screen propagated and...

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Basin or urinal Urinal or basin embedded in a wooden stool with a lid. It was common to have a toilet in the bedroom so as not to go out to the patio at night to relieve oneself. Very often, families had a chamber pot under the bed. This one served as a latrine, as it...