Museum of Communications

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Over 30 years this place has been in my backyard and I finally get around to checking it out!

http://museumofcommunications.org/

Was there about 4 hours but it felt like 4 minutes with so much kool stuff to see and touch. boB, if you have not been there git on down soon! Lots of pics to follow....

First up my favorite: 1KW Western Electric Broadcast Transmitter Circa 1928.

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Took lots of pics of this beast.

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A few more...

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Tube time!

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Water cooled electric pony harness.

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A peek of the backside.

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Next up. A Telegraphone, the first device capable of recording sound magnetically, and it did so on a thin steel wire. 

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Going one step further.....A Bell System answering machine that used a 45RPM record pre-recorded with your outgoing message and incoming messages recorded on a wire recorder.

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Wonder if bOB has one of these in his collection?

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A few more toobz.

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AC in, 48VDC out. Gotta keep those CO battery's happy!

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A couple more.

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If you remember these you are older than dirt. Or close to it. 

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Bandmaster Senior.

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Remember when the phone company would tell you the time of day? This is the machine that did the job.