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Telegraph Register

Telegraph Register

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

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L. G. Tillotson and Company of New York made this telegraph register about the time of the U. S. Civil War. It is stamped with serial number 1479. 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 which move a lever-arm holding a pen or styl

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Communication, telegraph and dates it ca 1865.

L. G. Tillotson and Company of New York made this telegraph register about the time of the U. S. Civil War. It is stamped with serial number 1479. 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 which move a lever-arm holding a pen or styl

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Smithsonian InstitutionTelegraph Register

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