Patanè’s
Collection
•The collection was donated to CNIT by don Giuseppe Patanè, a priest and a collector, who employed his entire, long life for searching, purchasing and repairing valuable pieces.
•The collections contains approximately 400 pieces, ranging from the first phonographs, to Galen radios and extends to domestic and military radios of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s up to the first years after WWII. All pieces have been carefully maintained and serviced, most of them are working as new....
•There are also some particularly rare pieces, such as a cryptographic “Enigma” machine, employed by the German army for transmitting encoded informations during WWII.