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Unspecified / ca 1870

Telegraph Register

Telegraph Register

The Smithsonian catalogs Telegraph Register as telegraph register in its Communication, telegraph records.

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This telegraph register was made in the shop of Charles Williams, Jr., in Boston. Williams was an important maker of telegraph equipment and also early telephones designed by Alexander Graham Bell. 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 electrom

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Communication, telegraph and dates it ca 1870.

This telegraph register was made in the shop of Charles Williams, Jr., in Boston. Williams was an important maker of telegraph equipment and also early telephones designed by Alexander Graham Bell. 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 electrom

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Smithsonian InstitutionTelegraph Register

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