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- Simplex Typewriter, 1892-1900 - Truth in advertising: the Simplex typewriter is very simple. This index typewriter was sold throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sometimes as a toy and sometimes as a serious typewriter, but it was always the same product. On the Simplex, typists used a pointer to choose letters on a type wheel, and then pressed down to print.
- 1892-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Simplex Typewriter, 1892-1900
Truth in advertising: the Simplex typewriter is very simple. This index typewriter was sold throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sometimes as a toy and sometimes as a serious typewriter, but it was always the same product. On the Simplex, typists used a pointer to choose letters on a type wheel, and then pressed down to print.
- Telegraph Key Used by Theodore Haubner to Send One of the First "SOS" Distress Signal on August 11, 1909 - In 1909, telegraph operator Theodore Haubner sent the first American ship-to-shore wireless distress signal -- SOS -- using this telegraph key. Haubner was aboard the SS <em>Arapahoe</em> off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when it became disabled.
- August 11, 1909
- Collections - Artifact
Telegraph Key Used by Theodore Haubner to Send One of the First "SOS" Distress Signal on August 11, 1909
In 1909, telegraph operator Theodore Haubner sent the first American ship-to-shore wireless distress signal -- SOS -- using this telegraph key. Haubner was aboard the SS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when it became disabled.