Box of Muirhead "Wollaston wire"
name: label: maker
content: Muirhead & Co. Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wollaston Wire, a box of platinum wire used in stringing Muirhead telegraph equipment. Mounted on a wooden frame enclosed in a wooden box. Wire is strung back and forth for the length of the frame 8 times. "401" penciled on the box end. Label on box top reads: "Wollaston Wire. / In removing the frame on which / the wires are mounted great care / must be taken that the fingers do / not come in contact with the wires, as they are readily broken. / Muirhead & Co., Ltd. / Hilo Wollaston. / Al quitar e bastidor en que estan / montados los hilos hay que tomar / mucho ciadado que los dados no / toquen a los hilos pues se rompen / facilmente. / Muirhead & Co., Ltd. / Fil Wollaston. / En deplacement le cadre sur la / quelle les fils sont monte it faut / faire attention que les doigts no / touchent pas les fils parcequ'ils sont / tres fragile / Muirhead & Co., Ltd."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from ITT World Communications, Inc., thru John Van Ingen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330280
label: catalog number
content: 330280
label: accession number
content: 288763
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wire, Wollaston
label: Object Name
content: wollaston wire
label: Object Name
content: submarine telegraph component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 12 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 31.75 cm x 6.985 cm x 2.8575 cm