Telegraph Direct Writer
name: label: maker
content: J. H. Bunnell & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A submarine telegraph direct tape writer mounted on a gray painted metal base. Four brass wire connectors on base. Signal coil is set in front of the circular magnet between the poles. Below the magnet is a brass tape handling system with 2 brass rollers and a brass patten. Writer assembly has two coils set between the poles and includes a small box for ink supply and a small pan for control of oscillations on each coil assembly.) Attached to the bottom of the coils are 2 siphon tubes which run from the ink supply to the coil then to the paper below. Molded on bottom of base: "J. H. Bunnell Co. / P-2029".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from ITT World Communications, Inc., thru John Van Ingen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.330266
label: catalog number
content: 330266
label: accession number
content: 288763
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telegraph Direct Writer
label: Object Name
content: telegraph receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 10 3/4 in; 26.67 cm x 14.605 cm x 27.305 cm