[GreenKeys] Wheatstone Tape setup 1930

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Mon Jul 26 07:17:22 EDT 2021


There’s a description of a Creed pneumatically operated Wheatstone
Reperforator and Printer here starting on pdf page 29.
http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/b3_morse_keyboard_perforators.pdf

Sounds! I’ve often remarked that Teletype mechanical engineers were
amazing. I’ll amend that to Teletype and Creed engineers were amazing.
Nick


On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 6:13 AM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool! I hadn’t ever heard of such a thing. This might be the machine?
>
> https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8005651/no-i-t-morse-tape-printer-1925-telegraph
>
> That description mentions a Wheatstone Reperforator which is also new to
> me.
>
> I learned two new things early this morning. Off to a good start.
> Nick
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:45 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Nick wrote:
>>
>> >  Nick, was there ever a machine to decode a CW signal in the old days
>> ???
>> > ..... something similar like a teletype machine?
>> >
>> Creed, the company that made Baudot teleprinters in England, also made
>> Morse equipment and that included a printer.  Marketed by McElroy in the
>> U.S., shown in a McElroy ad in an old ARRL handbook.  It could not
>> print directly off the air - you had to copy the material on a Morse
>> reperforator and then feed the tape into the
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