[GreenKeys] Teletype / Boehme gear

[Duncan Brown]

John,

Yes, this is for high speed Morse. Sometimes called a "Wheatstone 
Perforator" as Wheatstone came up with the original idea of the punched 
tape. But Wheatstone's unit only had three buttons: "Dot" "Space", & 
"Dash" and you actuated the buttons with little hammers. It was known as 
a "Mallet Perforator."

Edward Kleinschmidt developed the keyboard operated perforator in the 
1910-20 period.  It was manufactured & sold under the Kleinschmidt 
Electric, Morkrum-Kleinschmidt, and Teletype Corp. names and used up 
into WWII.

The "Kline" perforated two sets of holes to encode Morse and Boehme 
machines read the tape to key a TX. Note the WPM "Speedometer" goes up 
to 500wpm!

They have some at the Maritime Radio Historical Society station KPH 
(https://www.radiomarine.org). They might want some more.

Thanks for saving them!

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 11/23/2025 8:36 PM, John Lawson wrote:
>
>   So I stupidly drove a long way with my empty trailer to look at some 
> gear that was part of a now-closed museum.
>
> So about a ton of Stuff later, I have the pictured items (among many, 
> many other thingies – more nice TTY gear, will post later.
>
> Anyway – I suspect this is Teletype Morse Code gear – I dunno. 
> Hopefully someone will be able to identify this stuff.
>
> I also got several hundred feet of punched tape that I’m going to 
> transcribe and possibly archive.
>
> Cheers
>
> John KB6SCO
>
>
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