morse telegraph key
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Oval brass base with slightly oversized knob (not a wireless knob), and a circuit closer. Connections on lever arm, no legs. There appears to be connectors or mounts at the 10:00 and 2:00 positions. Appears very similar to a Bunnell legless key as seen in Maver's American Telegraphy, 1892, page 60, figure 41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.331834
label: catalog number
content: 331834
label: accession number
content: 294351
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph key
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: hard rubber (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 in x 3 in; 3.81 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm