Telegraph switch board
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Telegraph Switch Board. A slate base mounted on wooden board. A crank runs down the center of the base on top. When crank is set to one side, four contacts are made. Four other contacts are made if the crank is switched to the other side. The crank handle is marked: "G.W.R. Recorder" on one side and "Magnifier" on the other. Has terminal lugs beside each contact and 2 lugs on each end of the board, 12 lugs total. Stamped in the base near the crank: "F.S." and "1490". Paper labels on the base read: "Chain" and "Auto". A green Wheaton Van Lines label is numbers "W428 / 090".
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.330303
label: catalog number
content: 330303
label: accession number
content: 288763
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Switchboard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in; 6.6675 cm x 18.415 cm x 29.21 cm