The Concertina Museum: 1.2.1-029



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Item Type: Wheatstone Telegraph

Summary

Full Description: A small version of Wheatstone’s Single Needle Telegraph, in which the long, centrally-attached needle is made to point at various letters and numbers around the glazed dial.
The needle is moved via impulses from two crossed solenoid coils beneath the brass-mounted glazed dial. This item was recovered in the 1960s from the remnants of the Wheatstone Museum at King’s College, London, and is labelled “12”, added during one of the early attempts in the 1950s at listing the Museum’s contents.

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 1.2.1-029





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The Concertina Museum Collection

Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams

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