Western Union model 13551 line interface box
date: label: date made
content: 1980
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An electronics panel enclosed in a plastic cover. Wires and cables provide for connecting to a power supply and to a teleprinter. Unit includes operator's manual dated 1980. For use with a Telex machine. (for example, 1986.1032.01) Telex systems provided a way of communicating via text messages between printers connected to telegraph or telephone lines; essentially a tele-typewriter exchange. These devices predate hand-held text messaging via smart phones, and are historically linked to fax machines. Telex was considered a high-speed data network in the mid to late 1900s, later largely superseded by email and document sharing via the internet.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0177.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0177
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0177.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telex component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 5 in; 26.67 cm x 21.59 cm x 12.7 cm