Wanted: Identification of artefact

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

There you are . I am working on connecting it with telephone wire to do the tongue test again ….

Don't do that, you really won't enjoy it.

It might, in fact, be a telephone, or a ringer that has been modified into one.

There's too much stuff in there to be just a magneto generator, but it looks vaguely like something off a very old switchboard (very old = WW1) with an induction coil added.

There are similar bits of kit (as woodcut illustrations) in "Instructions in Army Telegraphy and Telephone (Instruments)", but I'm wondering if it's American.

(I shall go and find another book...)

Best regards,
Chris.