Hildebrant box telegraph relay
date: label: date made
content: ca 1892
notes: label: Description
content: Telegraph relays amplify an electrical signal in a telegraph line. Telegraph messages travel as a series of electrical pulses through a wire from a transmitter to a receiver. The pulses fade in strength as they travel through the wire, limiting the distance a message can be sent. Relays remedy that problem by detecting a weak signal and automatically re-transmitting that signal down the line using a local power source.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Janet Lewis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.335589
label: accession number
content: 323535
label: catalog number
content: 335589
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telegraph Key and Relay
label: Object Name
content: telegraph key with relay
label: Object Name
content: telegraph combination device
label: Object Name
content: telegraph key
label: Object Name
content: telegraph relay
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 9.2075 cm x 29.845 cm x 13.335 cm