Old West Pop Quiz

dd

All you old coots probably played with one as a youngster, I did. Ya see them a lot in western movies. So, what is it and how does it work. <br />
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Ugly

Antique telegraph machine?<br />
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A key at one end is pressed and it closes the electrical curcuit which sends a pulse of electricity through the wire. When the key is let go very fast, the pulse of electricity sent through the wire is a dot. if the key is held down 3 times longer, the pulse is a dash. Dashes and dots mixed together form different letters of the alphabet and when sent from a person at one end of the wire to another person at the other end of the wire, these dashes and dots would spell out words.

Grizzly Clark

What Ugly said.<br />
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Griz

Shotgun Bandit

What Ugly said..........except the item in da picture is da Reciever only.

dd

Right you all are! While there are variations in design, the "key" or transmitter is shown below. A couple of wires to connect them and a source of electricity and you have the 1880s internet!<br />
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