[GreenKeys] Fw: BBC enquiry - telegraph machine

[W2HX]

I am far from an expert, but the from the photo, it does not appear to have been printed from a strip printer. So I suspect that it was typewritten after the message was received. This would also explain the lower case text on top.  Of course that still leaves open the question of how it was done.

73 Eugene W2HX

From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Alf Fisher
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 6:03 PM
To: Greenkeys
Subject: [GreenKeys] Fw: BBC enquiry - telegraph machine

Hi Greenkeyers,
I have received an enquiry from the BBC  who are making documentary about telecommunications as part of a series of short films about WW1.
They would like to film some close ups of a telegraph machine that works or at least moves/makes noises as part of a story about the Zimmermann Telegram, so ideally it would be a machine of this era.  The Zimmermann Telegram is well documented on Wikipedia and other places.

I need your help in determining how the message of the Zimmermann Telegram was produced back in 1917.  I originally thought it was produced on some kind of teleprinter but there is lower case text at the top and bottom of the telegram I feel sure that you guys will know far more about the history of Western Union than I will ever know.  Was it done on a manual typewriter with an operator taking down the message from either an undulator slip or a Morse sounder?

Any thoughts welcome.

Alf



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