[GreenKeys] Wheatstone Tape setup 1930

John, W9DDD w9ddd at tapr.org
Mon Jul 26 11:36:42 EDT 2021


It would be interesting to hear the pneumatic stuff run.

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John, W9DDD

On 7/26/2021 6:17 AM, Nick England wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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