This page contains links to a sampling of a FEW of
the photographs of telegraph keys and scientific and philosophical
instruments that you will find in the On-Line Cyber-Museums listed
in the main telegraph Web page.
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10 Very Early Single Needle Telegraph & Key Circa
1830s. (36KB)

35 Very Early Faraday Philosophical Motor Circa 1850s. (35KB)(From the John Williams Collection)

40 Unusual Needle Telegraph Training set. (50KB)

51 Very Early Camelback Land-line Key Circa 1848. (24KB)

55 Very Early Morse Weight-Driven Register Circa 1848. (24KB)

60 Very Early Camelback Land-line Key Circa 1849. (54KB)

62 Very Early Camelback Land-line Key Circa
1849. (32KB)

80 Civil War Era Phelps Camelback Key & Old
Sounder Circa 1860s.
(60KB)

190 Western Union Transatlantic Cable Key
Circa 1860s. (50KB)

206 Very Early Lineman's Pocket Test Set Circa 1860s.
(33KB)

220 Gray & Barton Leg Key Circa 1860s. (33KB)

221 'R. Henning Maker:' Sounder Circa 1860s.
(38KB)

222 Western Union / Grey & Barton Leg Key
Circa 1850s (34KB)

230 Lewis/Western Union Key/Sounder/Relay
Circa 1875. (41KB)

254 Bunnell Camelback Key & Sounder Circa 1860s
(41KB)

259 Miniature Camelback Key & Sounder Circa
1860s. (49KB)

270 Tillotson Key and Sounder on Cast Base
Circa 1870s (53KB)

272 Tillotson Key and Sounder on Wood Base
Circa 1870s (58KB)

280 Very Early Williams Key & Sounder Circa
1860s. (35KB)
- NOTE: I do not own the Beardsley but it is available from its owner.

Rare Beardsley Civil War Dial Telegraph Circa 1864.
(83KB)

Beardsley (higher Resolution) Circa 1864.
(218KB)

Swedish Ericsson Register 1870s. (21KB)

Danish Knudson Telegraph Key Circa 1870s. (15KB)

405 Cornelius Knudsen Recording Register Circa
1860s. (62KB)

690 Tillotson Round Base Sounder Circa 1860s.
(29KB)

1055 'Steiner Key' on Marble Base Circa
1880s. (28KB)

1075 'M. Biggs' Leg Key" Circa 1886.
(23KB)

1080 '20th Century' 'Pump Handle' Key Circa
1900. (51KB)

1215 Swedish Ericsson-Style Key Circa 1870s.
(49KB)

1217 Swedish Ericsson Key Circa 1870s.
(49KB)

1219 Smaller Swedish Ericsson Key Circa 1870s.
(49KB)

1252 British Double Current Key Circa early 1900s.
(27KB)

2520 Foote-Pierson Recording Register Circa
1900. (45KB)

The BRACH Wireless Field Telegraph Set
(Sold at AWA Auction):(54KB)
This rare World War I wireless field telegraph set was sold for the
highest price of any item at the Antique Wireless Association Auction
in Rochester, NY. September, 1995.
Click here
to view schematic diagram.

A CUSTOMIZED 'HOT-ROD' VIBROPLEX:(40KB)
Seen (but not purchased) at the New England Antique Radio Club meet,
this Vibroplex Original was "customized" by someone in keeping with
the 'New Age'. But why?

TOP VIEW OF "CUSTOMIZED" VIBROPLEX:(39KB)-
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Montclair State University
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