Submarine Telegraph cable code transmitter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: D & H Precision Tool Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Submarine Telegraph Cable Code Transmitter. A brass housing containing a drive mechanism for paper tape. Tape drive wheel on top, connection block with ten pins and a drive-coupling plate are on the back. Stamped in front: "Cable / Transmitter / 2-A / W.U.Tel.Co. / No.542 / Mfg. by / D&H Precision / Tool Co. / Newark, N.J." Front cover plate is missing. Old tag reads: "Foley Transmitter". Reference: Duncan Cameron, "Submarine Telegraphy," International Textbook Co., 1927, pages 20-25. Thomas F. Foley was, in 1917, Superintendent of the WU Cable Station at Hammels, Long Island.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Unit is stored in a wooden case along with the phonic transmitter drive, NMAH catalog #329969. The code transmitter is mounted on the front of the phonic drive. Two brass knobs provide tension on two brass plates that hold the unit in place.
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 International
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.329970
label: catalog number
content: 329970
label: accession number
content: 283729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transmitter Cable
label: Object Name
content: cable transmitter
label: Object Name
content: submarine telegraph transmitter
label: Other Terms
content: Transmitter Cable; Telegraphy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: code unit: 5 in x 6 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 16.51 cm x 8.255 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 15 1/2 in x 16 in x 15 1/4 in; 39.37 cm x 40.64 cm x 38.735 cm