Hourglass timer for telephone calls
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hourglass style timer for long-distance telephone calls. A clear plastic block containing a small 3-minute hourglass with orange sand, and a rotary-type desk telephone medallion. Used to time telephone calls in an era when making long-distance calls was quite expensive. Markings: Partial sticker on reverse: “Ma[de in] Hong [Kong]”. Remaining label text matches that of a similar unit seen online.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0252.03
label: accession number
content: 2019.0252
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0252.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telephone timer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 3.4925 cm x 1.5875 cm