Fwd: Wireless Telegraphy Exhibit

Fri Mar 4 11:16:30 CST 2016

Does anyone have one of these in their basement or junk box? It seems 
like they ought to be able to find one of these for under $6000. I 
didn't find any on eBay, so maybe they are very rare.

73,
Paul -- N4PD

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Subject: 	Wireless Telegraphy Exhibit
Date: 	Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:45:34 -0500 (EST)
From: 	Chatham Marconi Maritime Center <info at chathammarconi.org>
Reply-To: 	cmmcmanager at gmail.com
To: 	n4pd at ieee.org

Donations Sought For A Unique Wireless Telegraphy Exhibit

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Donations Sought For A Unique
Wireless Telegraphy Exhibit

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February 29th, 2016
Dear Paul

        The Chatham Marconi Maritime Center is abuzz about a new and 
long sought-after artifact for our museum. For over a decade, we have 
been in search of a Creed Morse code transmitter to read the punch tape 
made by our Kleinschmidt machine. We finally located one of these 
artifacts, which would complete our museum's Kleinschmidt exhibit, in 
the State of Georgia. We are looking for donations to help defray the 
full costs of approximately $6,000 to purchase and ship the new 
artifact, as well as to build the exhibit to showcase its history and 
use. So, we are asking you to please consider helping our efforts by 
giving a small donation.

         We hope to purchase the machine and complete the exhibit by 
April 2016 for our Special Museum Opening events honoring the 95th 
Anniversary of WCC's Inauguration of Service in Chatham and the 
Celebration of Guglielmo Marconi's 142nd Birthday.

To make a donation, you may call 508-945-8889, or print this form and 
mail it in to:

Chatham Marconi Maritime Center
Creed Machine Exhibit
P.O. Box 421
North Chatham MA 02650

Donation amount: $____

__ Check enclosed; or, please charge my __ Visa or __ Mastercard
Name on card_____________________ Expiration date_______

Card number______________________ Security code _______

Signature _________________________
Preferred phone number _______________________
Chatham Marconi Maritime Center is a 501(c)(3) organization.  Donations 
are tax deductible to the extent allow by law. Benefits are 
non-transferable.
Please note that this call for exhibit donations is separate from our 
Membership or
Fall Annual Fund drive.

*What is a Creed Machine?*
When Morse code filled the airwaves and connected ships at sea with WCC, 
the skilled operators at Chatham Radio diligently "pounded the brass," 
working their keys by hand as they sent and received hundreds of 
individual messages every day.
While this public correspondence constituted the main business activity, 
the station also offered other services, including news broadcasts and 
other notices transmitted to mariners. This one-way traffic and the 
24-hour station identification utilized special equipment that sent the 
Morse dots and dashes automatically.
In the mid-twentieth century, the state of the art in automation was 
Wheatstone tape, a narrow ribbon of heavy paper, perforated with 
patterns of holes corresponding to patterns of code.
For a broadcast, a clerk prepared the tape using a typewriter-like 
keyboard which triggered an electrically-actuated punch. The resulting 
tape was then transmitted using a motorized tape reader. A fascinating 
arrangement of pins and linkages sensed the hole patterns and actuated a 
set of electrical contacts to key the powerful WCC transmitters.
The keyboard/punch was commonly known as a Kleinschmidt, or Klein for 
short, after its inventor, Edward Kleinschmidt. The Marconi/RCA Wireless 
Museum has featured a Klein as part of the Station exhibit since it opened.
Missing, however, is the all-important tape reader, which is only seen 
in the photograph above the Klein in the exhibit. Regrettably, much 
historic equipment was removed from the station before the museum took 
charge.
Now, in 2016, the museum is poised to remedy the situation, at least in 
part, with the purchase of a rare, working Wheatstone tape reader of the 
type used at WCC, manufactured by [Frederick] Creed & Co. of England. 
Like the Klein, around the station it was simply called "the Creed."
This season, the Creed would fill the lingering gap and add an element 
of animation to an expanded Station exhibit.

*A Note from Lewis Masson *
Lewis Masson has been a volunteer at CMMC from its start, and worked in 
the WCC station for 35 years. When he isn't in the museum writing 
telegrams for visitors, Lewis has been following every lead to track 
down a Creed and return it to the museum.
"The Creed was a very important piece of radio equipment that was used 
at WCC Chatham Radio every single day. The minute you came in the door, 
you could hear the Creed sending Morse code, sending out the identifying 
signal for Chatham Radio. The ships could hear the Creed going 24 hours 
a day, and this helped ships identify which frequency Chatham Radio was 
on. When the radio operator finished sending a message, the Creed would 
come on and keep going, identifying 'WCC, WCC' all day long, which is 
why it was such an important tool."

Want to learn more? See short video of a Kleinschmidt and a similar 
Morse code tape reader and transmitter by clicking here. 
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*Spring Museum Hours*
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*March*: Friday, March 25, 1-4 PM; and Saturday, March 26, 10:30 AM-4:30 PM
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*April*: for the Special Museum Opening events honoring the 95th 
Anniversary of WCC's Inauguration of Service in Chatham and the 
Celebration of Guglielmo Marconi's 142nd birthday:
Friday, April 15, 1-4 PM; Saturday, April 16, 10:30 AM-4:30PM; and 
Sunday, April 17, 1-4 PM

and Friday, April 29th, 1-4 PM; Saturday, April 30th, 10:30 AM-4:30PM
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May*: Friday, May 27, 1-4 PM; Saturday, May 28, 10:30 AM-4:30 PM; and 
Sunday, May 29, 1-4 PM. Visit over the Memorial Day Weekend!

*Renew Your Membership Now!
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Have you sent in your 2016 Membership renewal? A few weeks ago,
*/MarconiGram/* recipients were invited to renew or join during our 2016 
Membership drive. Members enjoy unlimited admission to the Marconi/RCA 
Wireless Museum and other benefits including preferred access to events, 
lectures and presentations, and CMMC's expanding youth and family STEM 
Education programs. For 2016, three levels of membership are offered. To 
join or to learn more, click here 
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call 508-945-8889.

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Three Cheers for a Wonderful 2016 Season!
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