Intercommunication telephone set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A small, desk-top telephone wired to a wooden case. The phone is a French-style unit with no dial - a button activates the unit. Nameplate reads: "Marvel-Phones / Lift / Hand Phone / Then Listen / Push / To Buzz / Quam Nichols Co. / Chicago / USA". The wooden box appears home-made and has a front panel with two plug-sockets, two red lamp covers, and a plug with an 18 ga. plastic cord. one socket is labeled "F W Post", the other is "Garage". Six conductors and the telephone cord emerge from the right side. Paper tag on top reads: "Intercommunication 'Phone to Fire-Watching Stations." Used by Civilian Defense during World War II to communicate from fire watchers stations to fire warden post.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Civil Defense Post 47-E-1; thru Hayner H. Gordon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.313226
label: catalog number
content: 313226
label: accession number
content: 170295
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telephone Set
label: Other Terms
content: Telephone Set; Telephones; Desk
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: phone: 3 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 20.955 cm x 10.81786 cm
label: Measurements
content: box: 4 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in x 9 in; 11.43 cm x 14.9225 cm x 22.86 cm