Telegraph Sounder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: J. H. Bunnell & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Telegraph sounders convert electrical pulses into audible sounds and are used to receive Morse code messages. The message travels as a series of electrical pulses through a wire. Short pulses make a dot, slightly longer pulses make a dash. The sequence of dots and dashes represent letters and numbers. The pulses energize the sounder’s electromagnets which move a lever-arm. The arm makes a loud “click” when it strikes a crossbar and the operator translates the pattern of sounds into the original language.
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 the Telegraphic Historical Society
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181372
label: accession number
content: 31175
label: catalog number
content: 181372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph receiver
label: Object Name
content: telegraph sounder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.255 cm x 14.605 cm