Boy Scout telegraph practice-set in original box
date: label: Date made
content: about 1950
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of telegraph instruments for learning and practicing Morse code. Includes two keys, four Burgess D-cell batteries (originals?), instruction booklet, and a coil of wire (two conductors twisted together). A three-position switch allows the scout to select different receiving methods: either a buzzer or an incandescent lamp on the unit, or the sounder on the other unit. Morse code is molded onto the housing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.19
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph set
label: Object Name
content: Morse-code pratice set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: closed: 2 in x 8 1/4 in x 14 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 20.955 cm x 36.83 cm