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rowid artifactNumber ObjectName GeneralDescription model SerialNumber Manufacturer ManuCountry ManuProvince ManuCity BeginDate EndDate date_qualifier patent NumberOfComponents ArtifactFinish ContextCanada ContextFunction ContextTechnical group1 category1 subcategory1 group2 category2 subcategory2 group3 category3 subcategory3 material Length Width Height Thickness Weight Diameter image thumbnail
108445 2016.0206.007 Case instrument Metal covered case with a lined wood interior foam padding and a leather covered handle.     Neumann Germany     1982   circa   7 The case is predominantly silver coloured metal with a black handle as well as a black and silver coloured logo plate a black white and silver model sticker a grey and black sticker and a pink and black sticker on the proper front of the lid. The edge and corner pieces of the case are smooth metal and the main flat surfaces have a "hammered"-like texture. The interior of the case is grey with some silver-coloured metal fasteners and black foam padding. 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¬ís 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¬ís 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) Used to store carry and protect a binaural dummy head for acoustic testing. Shaped to resemble a human head this binaural dummy allows for more realistic audio recordings that more resemble real world conditions. (From the Acquisition Proposal see Ref. 1) Communications Sound Miscellaneous             metal->;wood->;synthetic->foam;skin->leather 40 38.4 24.3       http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2016.0206.007.aa.cs.png http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2016.0206.007.aa.cs.thumb.png