Morse telegraph key
date: label: date made
content: 1848
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Used on the first telegraph line built in Cincinnati at Lebanon, Ohio. Curved brass lever 6" long with wooden knob, brass base, binding posts and trunnions, slide and spring switch to close circuit. Mounted on black wood base. Marked on paper tag attached to bottom: "5po-909".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Old Time Telegraphers Association, thru I. N. Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181011
label: catalog number
content: 181011
label: accession number
content: 25095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Key, Telegraph
label: Object Name
content: telegraph key