Clokey model 87 double digit direct writer
name: label: maker
content: A. A. Clokey
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A direct writer for submarine telegraph messages. Steel base on which is mounted five brass binding posts, a brass paten, a steel ink tray, and a writing assembly with three legs. The assembly has a circular magnet and two coil suspensions mounted side-by-side, each equipped with a glass siphon. The unit can record two message lines simultaneously. Label reads: "Direct Writer / Model 87 / No. 744 / A. A. Clokey / Rutherford, N.J. / U.S.A." The unit's container is not the original package but has been modified by cutting a hole in the top.
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 International
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.329937
label: catalog number
content: 329937
label: accession number
content: 283729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Recorder, Submarine Telegraph
label: Object Name
content: submarine telegraph recorder
label: Other Terms
content: Recorder, Submarine Telegraph; Telegraphy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: unit: 10 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in; 26.035 cm x 26.67 cm x 15.5575 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 9 1/2 in x 13 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 33.9725 cm x 24.13 cm