[GreenKeys] what kind of crazy perforator is this? #894939074

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At 08:06 AM 07/23/2002 -0400, PDW wrote:
>I have a book on the "Baudot Printing Telegraph System" that described the
>use of a piano like keyboard as a sending unit.  I wonder if this was a
>tape punch (was iron horse the term?) for such a system?
The dates mostly preclude it being a Baudot machine (teletype)

However, CW Wheatstone perforators were around prior to Baudot.
The high level Wheatstone perforator was structured like a typewriter.
The basic level Wheatstone perforator consisted of three 
levers:  dot/space/dash.

Unfortunately the fotos do not show any close detail and the tape shows no 
perforations or printing.

Not sure about this but it fits four fingers of each hand plus a center bar 
for thumbs.
Seems like a primitive Court Stenographers shorthand machine.

The "head-scratching" goes on..........

Perry    w8au