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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 | |
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| 108447 | 2016.0208.001 | Dummy head | Synthetic body with metal attachment points connections and fasteners and a synthetic tube. | DB 4004 | 1049 | Industrial Research Products Inc. | United States of America | Illinois | Elk grove village | 1 | The torso of the dummy is beige with a black base and a dark brass-coloured metal attachment on the proper right arm with an angled silver-coloured bar. On the proper right side of the torso there is a pink sticker with black markings and a grey sticker with black markings. On the black base there is a round blue sticker and a silver coloured label with purple markings. The proper bottom is predominantly black and there are silver-coloured metal fasteners and equipment connections a black and silver-coloured manufacturer's plate a white black and purple sticker and a round red attachment. Coming out of an opening in the bottom is a tanslucent colourless tube with black markings and two wires: one black wire and one red wire. The head of the dummy is a slightly lighter and greener beige than the rest of the body. It has a grey tube in its "mouth " white drawn-on markings on the face and sides of the head a recessed section on the proper right side that is a pinker beige colour and has silver coloured connection or attachment points. On the proper left there is a small white panel being apparently held in place by strips of black adhesive tape. | 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) | Used for binaural audio recording. (From the Acquisition Proposal see Ref. 1) | Shaped to resemble a human head and torso 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 | synthetic;metal;synthetic | 75.5 | 44 | 24 | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2016.0208.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2016.0208.001.aa.cs.thumb.png |
