Telegraph Register
name: label: maker
content: Knox & Swain
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Knox & Shain telegraph register sits atop a wooden base, with a brass frame, and two wire coils. A convenience container is inserted into the brass frame. The maker is Knox & Shain, Philadelphia, with a serial number of 665. There is a small tag marked “Chicago Mus 86” crossed out and “9”. A Western Union Museum tag reads “RHU Chicago rec 10/68”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Communication, telegraph
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.294351.006
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: catalog number
content: 294351.006
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph receiver
label: Object Name
content: telegraph register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 in x 13 in; 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm x 33.02 cm