Telegraph Cable Code Transmitter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A telegraph transmitter for submarine cable code. Brass housing with a gear train on the back side and connections to attach to a drive motor. A connection block with five contacts is set below the gear. On the front is the paper guide and transmitter mechanism. Glass front cover is missing. Two small rods touch the paper and operate a set of contacts depending on perforations in the paper tape. Printed on the top of the front: "TWEN No. 4858". Stamped on back: "Made in U.S.A." A Foley type unit to mount on top of a transmitter drive. (See NMAH catalog numbers 329969 and 329970.) Reference: Duncan Cameron, "Submarine Telegraphy," International Textbook Co., 1927, pages 20-25. Thomas F. Foley was, in 1917, Superintendent of the WU Cable Station at Hammels, Long Island.
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.330293
label: catalog number
content: 330293
label: accession number
content: 288763
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transmitter, Cable
label: Object Name
content: telegraph transmitter
label: Other Terms
content: Transmitter, Cable; Telegraphy; Transmitter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 22.225 cm x 13.97 cm