[GreenKeys] Hughes Printing Telegraph for sale - EUR 9000 and up
Sam Hallas
s.hallas at ntlworld.com
Sun May 15 19:30:07 EDT 2011
John Nagle wrote:
> The Science Museum in London has a Hughes Printing Telegraph.
I haven't seen it on display in my recent visits, but the one from the
British Telecom museum is on display at Amberley in Sussex.
http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/
and
http://www.samhallas.co.uk/museums/amberley_1.htm
Thansk for the detail about synchronisation and the drawbacks of the
Hughes system. However, I believe it must have been in use on the
British Post Office for some years as it figures in their Technical
Pamphlets for Workmen dated 1919:
<http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/b5_hughes_printing_telegraph.pdf>
Cheers,
Sam
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