page_title: Teleprinter
section_title: Creed & Company
hierarchical_section_title: Teleprinter / Manufacturers / Creed & Company
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Fernschreibmaschine mit Telefonanschluss Die neue Fernschreibmaschine, die Stenotypistin für grosse Entfernung, ist das Neueste der Bürotechnik. Der Apparat ist an das Telephon angeschlossen. Er heisst Teleprinter und kann Tausende von Apparaten gleichzeitig in Bewegung bringen. Information added by Wikimedia users.English: A Creed Model 7 teleprinter in 1930
context_page_description: A teleprinter is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations. Initially they were used in telegraphy, which developed in the late 1830s and 1840s as the first use of electrical engineering, though teleprinters were not used for telegraphy until 1887 at the earliest. The machines were adapted to provide a user interface to early mainframe computers and minicomputers, sending typed data to the computer and printing the response. Some models could also be used to create punched tape for data storage and to read back such tape for local printing or transmission.
  Teleprinters could use a variety of different communication media. These included a simple pair of wires; dedicated non-switched telephone circuits; switched networks that operated similarly to the public telephone network; and radio and microwave links. A teleprinter attached to a modem could also communicate through standard switched public telephone lines. This latter configuration was often used to connect teleprinters to remote computers, particularly in time-sharing environments.
context_section_description: Creed & Company, a British company, built teleprinters for the GPO's teleprinter service.
  Creed model 7 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1931)
  Creed model 7B (50 baud page printing teleprinter)
  Creed model 7E (page printing teleprinter with overlap cam and range finder)
  Creed model 7/TR (non-printing teleprinter reperforator)
  Creed model 54 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1954)
  Creed model 75 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1958)
  Creed model 85 (printing reperforator introduced in 1948)
  Creed model 86 (printing reperforator using 7/8" wide tape)
  Creed model 444 (page printing teleprinter introduced in 1966 - GPO type 15)
caption: A British Creed & Company Teleprinter No. 7 in 1930
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