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Telegraph Register
Telegraph Register
The Smithsonian catalogs Telegraph Register as telegraph receiver in its Communication, telegraph records.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
L. G. Tillotson and Company of New York made this telegraph register but the incomplete tape reel holder may have been added by the users in the University of Virginia's Physics Department. 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 w