[GreenKeys] Here's an odd device - Teletype and Morse?

[Richard Knoppow]

    Could be, using the morse line as an order wire. Old 
newsreels show ringside telegraph operators.
    If its WU both the key and sounder might have WU markings on 
them.
On 12/16/2018 1:12 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> I'm going to offer a guess.  Something Western Union would take to
> a sports event like a baseball game to report the game back to the
> telegraph office.  Pre-dating Model 31, so an earlier KSR printer 
> would
> be too heavy for the operator to lug to the press box.  But the TTY
> keyboard would allow faster transmission than a Morse key, and would
> allow the telegraph office to copy transmissions on a printer.  The
> Morse sounder is there so the telegraph office can communicate 
> back to
> the operator, who would know Morse.  And the Morse key is to give 
> him
> a way to communicate with the office until the printer connection is
> established.
> 
> This is only a guess.  If you could inspect it you might find the 
> Western
> Union name on various pieces of it.
>

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Richard Knoppow
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