Western Electric Crank Dial Box
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Latest patent date - March 12, 1901. With induction coil, condenser and bell ringer. Dial selector reads 0-100 on outside ring and 0-100 on inner ring. Receiver and transmitter missing. Professor Rollins recalled: "that is part of a telephone equipment that I think came from Prof. Lewis. He gave me a number of things and I think that was one of them. It was his father or some relative who was interested in telephone systems. I don't think it got a great ways."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Tufts University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.328024
label: catalog number
content: 328024
label: accession number
content: 270107
label: collector/donor number
content: 11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telephone Set
label: Object Name
content: wall telephone
label: Other Terms
content: Telephone Set; Telephones; Wall
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 7 in x 6 1/2 in; 28.575 cm x 17.78 cm x 16.51 cm