Submarine telegraph phonic transmitter drive
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: D & H Precision Tool Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Submarine Telegraph Phonic Transmitter Drive. A motor in a steel housing mounted on a steel base. Flywheel on one end of armature, coupling plate to attach to code transmitter on the opposite end. Connector block with ten contact screws on the left side for communication links, connector block with four contact screws for power on the back, and a brass mount for the code transmitter on front. Circuit wiring under the base. Stamped under base: "542". A push-button toggle switch is in the right rear corner of the base. Old tag reads: "Drive for Foley Transmitter". Reference: Duncan Cameron, "Submarine Telegraphy," International Textbook Co., 1927, pages 20-25. Thomas F. Foley was, in 1917, Superintendent of the WU Cable Station at Hammels, Long Island.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Unit is in a wooden case along with the code transmitter, NMAH catalog #329970.
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.329969
label: catalog number
content: 329969
label: accession number
content: 283729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Motor, Phonic
label: Object Name
content: submarine telegraph component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: drive unit: 11 in x 11 in x 13 in; 27.94 cm x 27.94 cm x 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 15 1/2 in x 16 in x 15 1/4 in; 39.37 cm x 40.64 cm x 38.735 cm