[GreenKeys] got western union handbook for teletype maintainers june12 19...

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

Thanks!  always neat to know how  all these    things  fit in the over al 
picture!
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 4/21/2015 9:46:03 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ka2wft at arrl.net writes:

Seems  like I have seen some, somewhere, but can't begin to say 
where/when that  was and I don't think I saved them on my machine.  It 
was possibly in  the Shorpy pix and/or a YouTube video of an old Bell 
System (or whatever)  film.

A now retired coworker once told me about the little drug  store/general 
store his family had in a small town between Buffalo and  Rochester when 
he was a kid and they had the Western Union contract for  the town. 
There was a little tape printer installed and he told me how the  WU rep 
came and showed them how to paste up the telegrams, using one of  these 
tools.

D.


On 4/21/2015 11:56 AM,  COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> thanks  Doug!   Mystery  solved!  anyone  got a  scan of photo of it in
>  action  we  can pair  with it ?  ed
>  >  sharpe archivist for smecc
> In a message dated 4/21/2015 5:47:18 A.M.  US Mountain Standard Time,
> ka2wft at arrl.net  writes:
>
>     The "glass thing" in the middle of  your photo is not a chemical
>     rectifier but a  pasting tool for telegrams.  The tank holds water 
which
>   soaks a small sponge at the end a gummed tape from a printer is  drawn
>     through the guides as the tape is pasted to a  telegram blank.  It
>     allows
>   someone to paste up a telegram from printed tape very  quickly.
>
>     Doug  A.
>
>
>
>     On 4/21/2015 3:02 AM, Ed  Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys 
wrote:
>       > got western union handbook for teletype maintainers June 12  1944
>     any one
>      >  scanned?
>      > this  stuff from mod 19   and earlier including lots of model   12
>       > info..   tons of table wiring configs.....it is like a huge  bell
>      > practice flip book thing.if   scanned  I  will just  file it and  
use
>   > when needed ( hate reading of screens) all these western  uniion
>      > stickers  are  neat and the  glass thing...a  chemical rectifier?  
ed
>       > sharpe archivist for  smecc
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