[GreenKeys] Can you identify the equipment in this picture?

[Tom Dawson]

So what are the equipment with "tuning" forks?


73

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Nagle" <nagle at animats.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:54 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Can you identify the equipment in this picture?


>    This picture is from the online Office Museum, and shows a Western 
> Union
> office in Omaha, NE.
>
> http://www.officemuseum.com/IMagesWWW/Office_with_Unidentified_Keyboard_Machines.jpg
>
> It's a very high resolution picture of what appears to be very early 
> printing
> telegraph equipment.  This gear looks earlier than the Model 12, yet
> it doesn't seem to be early Morkrum equipment.  There's are two keyboard
> units and two page printing units, each with its own operator.  No sign
> of paper tape.
>
> There's an equipment table with huge electromagnetic tuning forks,
> and what looks like eight polar relays.  This is probably a
> multiplexing system.
>
> John Nagle
>
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