Antique 1920s Federal Telephone & Telegraph wire-wound radio tuning coil. For Sale

Overstock from Pioneer Village.

The Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company manufactured electrical and communications equipment in Buffalo, New York, during the early twentieth century. These components were produced in the 1920s to help radio hobbyists tune in to broadcast frequencies during the rise of commercial wireless entertainment. They were constructed with precision wire-wound coils on cylindrical forms to control electrical signals within early receiver circuits.

Harold Warp (December 21, 1903 – April 8, 1994) was an American businessman who invented Flex-O-Glass. He also founded Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. [1] [2] [3]

Harold Warp was born in a sod house on a farm near Minden, Nebraska. He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. When he was three years old, his father died; his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers moved to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had developed. Their business became successful and in time its product line grew to include many other plastic products. Harold Warp was the recipient of numerous awards including the Horatio Alger Award in 1979 and the Distinguished Nebraskalander Award in 1984.[4][5][6]

He opened Pioneer Village in 1953 in Minden, Nebraska. Most of the objects on display were personally collected by him in his lifetime. In 1983, Warp donated the museum to the nonprofit Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation.