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Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sectioned desk telephone transmitter and receiver. Three quarter front view of whole object on graduated grey
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sectioned desk telephone transmitter and receiver, made by the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company, Edge Hill, Liverpool, England, 1926.
Candlestick telephones like this one were familiar and popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s. It had a 'solid black' transmitter, where the carbon granules were contained in a small brass cylinder, which was connected to the diaphragm at one end. This type of transmitter worked better when it was nearly upright, hence the design of the telephone. It required a separate bell set.
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- Category:
- Telecommunications
- Object Number:
- 1926-482
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), copper (alloy), enamel, metal (unknown)
- type:
- telephone
- taxonomy:
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- component - object
- credit:
- Donated by the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company
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