[GreenKeys] Teletype Corp. Museum tour
Nick England
nick at navy-radio.com
Fri Jan 23 20:42:59 EST 2026
There’s a newspaper article on my page that explains how they were
distributed to various museums. It says they also sent a list to those
museums, so I presume the AWA museum has that list too?
https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/museum.htm
Nick England K4NYW
Chapel Hill NC
www.navy-radio.com
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
> Any idea what happened to the artifacts put into storage?
>
> Steve
>
> On 1/23/26 16:37, Duncan Brown wrote:
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> The Teletype Corp. originally had a museum covering the early days of
> telegraphy through the research and development of their various products.
> Unfortunately, as the company grew, the space that the Museum consumed was
> needed for office space and the Museum was closed in the late 1970s, with
> all artifacts put into storage. Luckily, photographs of the Museum
> artifacts had been taken before it was dismantled, and long-time Teletype
> Corp. engineer Ransom Slayton used these photos to make a video tour of the
> Museum as it was in the 1970s. The surviving copy of this video recording
> was in poor condition, but the original slides used to make the video were
> available.
>
> The Electronic Communications Museum of the Antique Wireless Association
> has re-mastered this presentation. Non AI image processing has been used to
> improve the shadow detail in the original slides and non-generative AI
> audio processing was used to improve the sound track and remove the
> background music.
>
> Get the inside scoop on these electro-mechanical marvels here:
> https://youtu.be/fisJ3H5JvUI
>
> Have fun,
>
> Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
> USASA 31J30
>
> Antique Wireless Association
> Communication Technologies Museum
> Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
> (also chief TTY op & repairman)
>
> i-Telex: 212503
>
> www.antiquewireless.org
>
> AWA Youtube channel:
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX55peBhzeX1qps_VYXdLBA
>
> Virtual AWA Museum TTY Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpB6jM90VV8
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