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AT&T receiver
Date: circa 1900
Inventory Number: 8077a
Classification: Telephone
Subject:
Maker: Western Electric Company (1881 - 1995)
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Dimensions:
6 × 7.1 × 4 cm (2 3/8 × 2 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Material:
Description:
A telephone receiver known as a "watchcase" style receiver, because of its compact shape. The device consists of a short cylindrical case, made of black-painted brass, topped by a hard-rubber screw-on receiver with a molded, dish-shaped earpiece. The earpiece has a circular opening in the base of the dish, through which a diaphragm may be seen.
Inscribed on the rounded edge of the earpiece is, "PROPERTY OF AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO."
Two brass terminals protrude from the side of the cylindrical case. There is a hook on bottom side of the case for hanging the receiver.
Inscribed on the rounded edge of the earpiece is, "PROPERTY OF AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO."
Two brass terminals protrude from the side of the cylindrical case. There is a hook on bottom side of the case for hanging the receiver.
Signedsigned: PROPERTY OF AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO
FunctionConversion of electrical impulses into sound for output by telephone
Curatorial RemarksOld tag: "DPCR 8077a"
ProvenanceJefferson Laboratory, Physics Department, Harvard University
