(...A technical history of the electric telegraph and telegraph codes:
Sold with COMPANION BOOK:
"Telegraph Collectors Guide"
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2. W1TP TELEGRAPH & SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS: (Latest Version)
(...Descriptive Text Pages for fast Reading...with Instant One-Click
Access to Thousands of Photographs.)
3. "INLINE PICTURES" VERSION OF
THE W1TP TELEGRAPH & SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS:
(...with Thousands of Photographs Embedded in the Descriptive Text of
each Section for Easy Picture Browsing / Scrolling.)
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4.
COMPLETE **SEARCHABLE** W1TP MUSEUM INDEX AND DATABASE WITH THOUSANDS OF
LINKED DESCRIPTIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHS:
(...Use your browser's
SEARCH function (EDIT / FIND-ON-THIS-PAGE) to search the entire museum, read
the resulting descriptions, then click on photograph links to view the
pictures:)
5.
CURRENT VALUES - Telegraph PRICE GUIDE for EVERY Item in the Entire
Museum:
(...Current Values for virtually every piece of telegraph apparatus you are
ever likely to find...
Updated as needed on the internet:) (See www.w1tp.com for updates.)
6.
Gil Schlehman's TELEGRAPH PATENT AND KEY COLLECTIONS:
(...550 Telegraph Patents and Ads and 400 Telegraph Keys from this
extraordinary collection all INLINE for easy browsing.)
7. Russ Kleinman's SPARK KEY
PROJECT:
(...with instant access to information, photographs, and diagrams of hundreds
of Spark Keys, Transmitters, and Components.)
8. Doug Seneker's COMPREHENSIVE LIST
OF EVERY KNOWN SEMI-AUTOMATIC KEY:
(...with every known American and Foreign bug described for the first
time.)
9.
Freeware "IRFANVIEW" File Viewer:
(...Install this wonderful file viewer to allow viewing ALL museum pictures
(Most are stored in the /w1tp folder) as thumbnail pictures. Clicking on any
picture will allow instant full-screen viewing, extensive graphic editing and
saving. Excellent help files are included. It will load and allow viewing of
thousands of photos in just a few seconds.)
10. Roger Reinke's AMERICAN
TELEGRAPH MAKERS LIST (1837-1900) - SECOND EDITION, 2004:
(...TABULAR VERSION of the above
ruled-format list:) (...
FIRST EDITION (1986) of above list:
11. Neal McEwen's COMPREHENSIVE LIST
OF MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY KNOWN SEMI-AUTOMATIC KEY:
(...with the manufacturer of every known American and Foreign bug,
locations, dates, and brief descriptions when known.)
12. The HISTORY, TELEGRAPH KEYS, and
MANUFACTURING FACILITIES of The VIBROPLEX COMPANY:
(...The World's Oldest Telegraph Manufacturing Company:)
13. The MANUFACTURING FACILITIES,
KEYS, and a VIDEO of GERMAN KEY MAKER GERHARD SCHURR, DH2SAA:
15. The UNUSUAL and INNOVATIVE TELEGRAPH
KEYS of RICHARD MEISS, WB9LPU:
16. John Casale's Presentation of a
JANUARY, 1848 MAP SHOWING THE LINES OF MORSE'S ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH
that were in operation and being constructed in the United States:
(...Image from The Weekly Herald, New York, January 29, 1848.)
17. 1850 MAP OF THE TELEGRAPH LINES
IN EUROPE:
(...showing the Electric, Railroad, and Optical telegraph lines.)
18. John Casale's Presentation of a
1853 MAP SHOWING THE TELEGRAPH STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, THE CANADAS,
and NOVA SCOTIA:
(...Image from the Library of Congress Map Division.)
19. John Casale's HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT
BUNNELL COMPANIES AND THEIR PRODUCTS:
(...including the complete early
BUNNELL TELEGRAPHIC and ELECTRICAL COMPANY
Catalog Number 11.)
20. John Casale's HISTORY OF THE BUNNELL
STEEL LEVER KEY OFTEN CALLED THE "TRIUMPH KEY":
(...The evolution of this revolutionary telegraph key.)
21. John Casale's Article: THE BUNNELL
DOUBLE SPEED KEY: Was it really introduced in 1888 ?
(...researching the history of the famous Bunnell
"Sideswiper" )
22.
WW-II NEWSREEL VIDEO of the TRAINING of NAVY TELEGRAPH OPERATORS:
(1.3min. 4.7MB .mpg video file)
(...An historic original video of WW-II
Navy Morse Training. )
23. 1848 DANIEL DAVIS TELEGRAPH AND
ELECTRICAL APPARATUS CATALOG.
(...shows the amazing variety of
electrical apparatus sold by Davis. Davis made some of the instruments
for Morse's Washington-Baltimore telegraph line. Thomas Hall, one of his
employees took over part of his business when he retired.)
24. 1850s SIEMENS & HALSKE
EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH CATALOG:
(...Catalog, Company History, and Engineering
Drawings:)
25. 1870s L.C. TILLOTSON CATALOG of
Telegraph Instruments, Tools, Wire, and Submarine Cables.
26. 1889 J.H. BUNNELL
CATALOG # 10:
(...Includes all Telegraph and Electrical Apparatus.)
27. 1918 J.H. BUNNELL
TELEGRAPH CATALOG:
(...Includes a wide range of the Telegraph
Instruments in use during this time period.)
28. 1929 WESTERN UNION PLANT CATALOG
(...Transcribed by Richard S. Loveland, N3IA ...and converted to
HTML coding by Lynn Burlingame, N7CFO.)
29. The 1851 Daniel Davis book: THE
BOOK OF THE TELEGRAPH.
(...covers a wide range of topics including submarine telegraph cables. Davis
made some of the instruments for Morse's Washington-Baltimore telegraph line.
Thomas Hall, one of his employees took over part of his business when he
retired.)
30. The 1860 Siemens & Halske DESCRIPTION
OF SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH TECHNOLOGY.
31. The 1881 Frank L. Pope book:
MODERN PRACTICE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(...The complete book with Instant Access to all Pages and
Illustrations.)
32. The 1989 Louise Moreau book:
THE STORY OF THE KEY.
(...An introduction to telegraph key history and collecting.)
33. The 1997 J. Munro book: HEROES OF THE
TELEGRAPH.
34. The 2001 William G. Pierpont,
N0HFF book: THE ART AND SKILL OF RADIO TELEGRAPHY.
(...Third edition of this freely distributed classic book: PDF File:
REQUIRES ADOBE ACROBAT READER: www.adobe.com)
35. The 2004 J. B. Calvert manuscript:
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(...A technical history of the electric telegraph and telegraph codes:
36. THE ''KEYLETTER''
(1992 - Present) Cumulative Index to back issues:
(...A complete index to 1600 keys/topics discussed in printed issues of ''The
KEYLETTER'' ....with information about how to subscribe and order back-
issues.)
37. ''THE VAIL CORRESPONDENT''
(1992 - 1998) Cumulative Index to back issues:
(...A complete listing of 250 articles from this out-of-print journal
....with information about how to order back-issues.)
38. ''MORSUM MAGNIFICAT''
(1986 - 1999) Cumulative Index to back issues:
(...A complete listing of 3000 topics/articles from this out-of-print
journal.)
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