Creed automatic morse equipment, with components and accessories

Creed automatic morse equipment, with components and accessories Creed automatic morse equipment, with components and accessories Creed automatic morse equipment, with components and accessories Creed automatic morse equipment, with components and accessories

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Creed automatic morse equipment, manufactured by Creed and Company Limited, Croydon, London, England, 1925. Comprising No. 9 morse keyboard perforator; No. 11 morse automatic transmitter; No. 10 undulator receiver; No. 7 W/3 reperforator; No.I.T. morse tape printer, two Creed relays and sundry associated components. Acquired direct from the manufacturer and representative of a widely used system during the mid-Twentieth century, including by the Post Office.

Creed automatic Morse equipment, manufactured by Creed and Company Limited, Croydon, London, England, 1925. Comprising No. 9 Morse keyboard perforator; No. 11 Morse automatic transmitter; No. 10 undulator receiver; No. 7 W/3 reperforator; No.I.T. Morse tape printer, two Creed relays and sundry associated components. Acquired direct from the manufacturer and representative of a widely used system during the mid-Twentieth century, including by the Post Office.

Charles Wheatstone developed the automatic Morse sender and receiver in the mid-nineteenth century. The sender used two-unit perforated tape which had to be prepared by hand. Creed and Co Ltd designed a set of equipment in the early 1920s which automated the entire process of preparing, sending and receiving telegraph messages. Known as the 'high-speed Morse system', it comprised a keyboard perforator for preparing the tape, a motorised sender, a reperforator for making a tape of received messages and a motorised high-speed printer which could print up to 100 words a minute. Such equipment remained in widespread use in newspaper offices and government departments until the 1950s.

Details

Category:
Telecommunications
Object Number:
1950-226
type:
telegraph
credit:
Donated by Creed and Company Limited