TELEGRAPH EQUIPMENT
THE EARLY YEARS

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Illustrations of (1) Sommering’s Water Telegraph, (2) Ronald’s Pithball and Dial Telegraph
 

Illustration of Steinheil's equipment and alphabet (1836)
 

Illustrations of (1) Cooke and Wheatstone single needle machine, (2) Cooke and Wheatstone single needle dial and alphabet, (3)
Neale’s Acoustic Dial, (4) O’Shaughnessy’s reflected needle telegraph, (5) Bright’s bell sounder (1825 - 1848)
 

Illustrations of (1) Cooke and Wheatstone single needle machine, (2) Cooke and Wheatstone single needle dial and alphabet,
(3) Neale’s acoustic dial, (4) O’Shaughnessy’s reflected needle telegraph, (5) Bright’s bell sounder (1845 - 1852)
 

Illustrations of (1) Wheatstone ABC telegraph, (2) Wheatstone ABC telegraph final form,
(3) Breguet portable ABC telegraph machine, (4) Froment’s ABC machine (1840 - 1853)
 

Illustrations of (1) Morse’s first recording telegraph, (2) first Morse writing, (3) Froment’s recorder,
(4) Creed undulator, (5) undulator writing (1837 - 1841)
 

Illustrations of (1) Morse transmitting plate and alphabet dots and dashes, (2) Morse key, (3) Morse key with switch,
(4) Morse key later form, (5) Varley’s earthing and automatic reversing switch, (6) Bright’s curb earthing switch (1839 - 1862)
 

Illustrations of (1) Siemen’s Halske submarine earthing Key, (2) Siemen’s Halske magneto introduction key,
(3) single current key, (4) double current key, (5) 300 KW signalling key (1863)
 

Illustrations of (1) Morse embossing recorder, (2) Siemen’s Halske embossing recorder, (3) Bain’s chemical recorder,
(4) John’s ink recorder, (5) Beaudoin and Digney ink recorder, (6) Siemen’s ink recorder (1845 - 1854)
 

Modern piece ink writer and key, Armature and inking disc, Modern sounder, Polarised sounder (original pattern),
Modern polarised sounder with fixed adjustments, Multiple Telegraph switchboards (reception by sounder)
 

Illustrations of (1) Wheatstone Morse perforator, (2) Kielschmidt keyboard perforator, (3) Gall keyboard perforators (1867)
 

Illustrations of (1) Siemen’s Halske Morse type transmitter, (2) Wheatstone automatic Morse transmitter,
(3) Vyle and Smart motor driven Morse transmitter, (4) Siemen’s automatic Morse transmitter 1861-1867
 

Illustrations of (1) Automatic Wheatstone Morse Receiver, (2) Mulligan Motor Driven Wheatstone Receiver
 

Illustrations of (1) Hughes’ printing telegraph, (2) Bonelli’s typewriting chemical telegraph, (3) specimen of writing (1864)
 

Illustrations of (1) Baudot Multiplex Printing Telegraph System , (2) Baudot Distributor, (3) Baudot Manual Keyboard,
(4) Baudot Relay, (5) Five Unit Code and Alphabet
 

Illustrations of (1) Baudot keyboard perforator (Carpentier), (2) Baudot keyboard perforator (Booth-Wilkes),
(3) Baudot automatic transmitter, (4) Baudot motor driven receiver (1887 - 1925)
 

Illustrations and photographs of the Murray multiplex printing telegraph system
 

Western Electrics Multiplex Printing Telegraph System - Illustrations of component parts:- Distributor, Perforator, Transmitter, Receiver
 

Siemen’s Duplex Printing Telegraph System - Illustrations of component parts of:- Siemen’s Duplex Printing Telegraph System
 

Illustrations of (1) Gauss and Webber Mirror Telegraph and Alphabet, (2) Thompson’s Reflecting Galvanometer and Screen,
(3) Thompson’s Siphon Recorder, (4) Muirhead’s Siphon Recorder, (5) Siphon Writing, (6) Siphon Alphabet

Last revised: October 12, 2023