Clay hand telephone
date: label: Date made
content: 1883
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Marked: "Clay Patents 1883". Hard rubber case, appears to be magneto type. Refers to US Patent 277112, Telephone, issued 8 May 1883 to Henry Clay. Four other 1883 Clay patents are for other components of his telephone system.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Tufts University, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.328110
label: catalog number
content: 328110
label: accession number
content: 270107
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telephone Receiver
label: Other Terms
content: Telephone Receiver; Telephones; Receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 6.985 cm