Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph unit
date: label: date made
content: about 1837
name: label: associated person
content: Logeman, M.
label: maker
content: Wheatstone, Charles
label: maker
content: Logeman, M.
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke's 5-needle telegraph unit. Wooden case with five pointers along the middle row. Thirteen of the original twenty letters remain on the unit. The pointers indicate which letter of the alphabet is being transmitted. Reference: W. James King, "Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century 2: the Telegraph and the Telephone," Bulletin of the United States National Museum (Washington, DC, 1966), 289-291.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Burndy Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0181.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0181.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0181
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telegraph receiver
label: Other Terms
content: Telegraph receiver; Telegraphy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 17 in x 4 in; 60.96 cm x 43.18 cm x 10.16 cm