M&IE Co. automatic transmitter
name: label: maker
content: Manufacturers' and Inventors' Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Manufacturers' and Inventors' Electric Co. An automatic telegraph transmitter in a brass casing mounted on a wooden base. A glass panel allows inspection and maintenance of parts. Roller above glass panel and switch on the left side. One nameplate reads: "Western Union Telegraph Co. / Engineering Dept. Laboratories / New York City / Gen'l Laboratory No. 1507". Another plate reads: "Read This / This article is a part of the / General Laboratory stock. Do / not disassemble or make / any repairs or altera- / tions of any kind to it. If / defective return immediately / to the stock room." Stamped and stenciled: "G.L. 1507". Connectors on back marked: "Motor", "S", "T", "M".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.332471
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: catalog number
content: 332471
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transmitter, Automatic
label: Object Name
content: telegraph transmitter
label: Other Terms
content: Transmitter, Automatic; Telegraphy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 7 in; 20.955 cm x 26.67 cm x 17.78 cm