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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
This telegraph register may have been used in a 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