Telegraph Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: Gamewell Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This telegraph register may have been used in a municipal fire alarm system. When a person activated a call box to report a fire, registers of this type would receive the signal and record which box had been activated. Telegraph registers are electrically-activated printers that receive Morse code messages. The message travels as a series of electrical pulses through a wire. The pulses energize the register’s electromagnets which move a lever-arm holding a pen or stylus. A clockwork mechanism pulls a strip of paper across the pen or stylus, recording the message. Short pulses draw or emboss a dot, slightly longer pulses a dash. The sequence of dots and dashes represent letters and numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Communication, telegraph
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Telegraph Registers
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content: Communications
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.331132
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: collector/donor number
content: 37-03
label: catalog number
content: 331132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph receiver
label: Object Name
content: telegraph register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 6 in x 8 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 15.24 cm x 21.59 cm