[Milsurplus] WW II Test Bench Instruments

[Al Klase]

Yes, GR was, for sure, one of the heavy hitters in lab-grade test 
equipment in this era.  I'll bet the better scopes came from Allen B. 
Dumont.  RCA also made some credible equipment.

Does anyone know if the boys from Boonton (NJ), like Ferris, Ballentine, 
and Measurements, were in business at that time?

Al

Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> I suspect that you would have seen a lot of stuff from General Radio 
> if he was working on the east coast. Exactly which models depends on 
> when the particular company stocked up. Basic stuff:
>
> VTVM
> RF / AF generators
> Power supply(s)
> Wavemeter(s)
> Power meter
>
> Past that, probably not a lot that wasn't custom made. Scopes only 
> became common after the war.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:02 AM, J Forster wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, what test instruments would have been on the bench of
>> a radio or radar development engineer in the last days of WW II ?
>>
>> I can see a BC-221 or LM-xx and a VOM (what kind?), but what about
>> scopes, RF generators, AF generators, power supplies, etc. I suppose it
>> would have been a mix of military and commercial, but that's just a
>> guess. I'm more interested in standard gear, not special, purpose built,
>> test sets for a specific system.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -John
>>
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