Morse telegraph key
date: label: date made
content: ca 1887
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Morse Telegraph Key, oval shaped brass base with top connections; curved lever 4" long with hard rubber knob attached to frame by flat spring. Marked: "Pat'd Feb. 23, 1886, Apr. 13, 1886". Collecting curator's 1897 inventory notes that this key is "for broken down senders afflicted with Neurosis". [Repetitive motion injury.] An exhibition label from about 1910 reads: "Morse Telegraph Key, 1886. Designed to enable the operator to work with his hand and arm in many positions and to avoid cramping.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.181368
label: catalog number
content: 181368
label: accession number
content: 31175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Key, Telegraph
label: Object Name
content: telegraph key
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 5.08 cm x 13.97 cm