Bell #10 deskset ringer box
Date: circa 1897
Inventory Number: 8090b
Classification: Telephone
Subject:
Maker: Western Electric Company (1881 - 1995)
Maker: New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (1878 - 1879)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
15.2 × 14.3 × 11.8 cm (6 × 5 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Description:
A Bell telephone deskset ringer box for notification to subscriber of incoming calls; designed to be mounted on a wall. Device has a wooden, rectangular ringer box. The ringer box has dovetail joins and beveled top and bottom edges. A metal bell and ball clapper is mounted on the lid of the ringer box, along with two terminals.
A pair of electrical wire coils held in place by several mounting brackets may be seen on the underside of the lid of the box. A short length of cloth-covered electrical wire connects the coil assembly to the bell.
See also, ringer box 8090a, transmitter 8094.
A pair of electrical wire coils held in place by several mounting brackets may be seen on the underside of the lid of the box. A short length of cloth-covered electrical wire connects the coil assembly to the bell.
See also, ringer box 8090a, transmitter 8094.
Signedstamped on left side: NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO.
Inscribedstamped on left side: PROPERTY OF NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO.;
above front terminals: TYPE 43N;
between bells: 1000
above front terminals: TYPE 43N;
between bells: 1000
FunctionSignaling incoming calls to subscriber
ProvenanceJefferson Laboratory, Physics Department, Harvard University
Published ReferencesThis instrument is described in:
Thomas G. Hedberg, "Catalogue: Telephones, Phonographs and Related Instruments in The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University." William Andrewes, Project Director (unpublished manuscript, President and Fellows of Harvard College and Thomas G. Hedberg, 1989. Fifth Draft), p. 89.
