Meissner’s generator of electrical waves: On the history of an artifact

Alexander Meissner, an engineer at the laboratory of the Telefunken Company, prepared a patent application with regard to a ‘set for generating electric oscillations’ early in 1913. The history of this set, which was realized with a Lieben valve in the same year, will be investigated from its invention process over its role in the production of transmitters and receivers up to its display in the exhibits of the Deutsches Museum.