Long Distance Transmitter 1886 (287)

Photograph

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Vail Museum

Name/Title

Long Distance Transmitter 1886 (287)

Entry/Object ID

2012.061.1

Description

Photo, glossy photo print of Long-Distance Transmitter 1886, the instrument actually used by Bell and later T.N. Vail, framed 10 x 8. (N.B., the original instrument was given to LSC by AT&T in 1976 when the museum was dedicated. Several years later, AT&T asked us if they could borrow it for a special exhibition, then refused to return it. Several appeals were made…to no avail. They denied that they had ever intended to give it to us, and claimed that they had merely loaned it to the Museum!?! A. R. Boera

Cataloged By

Betty Beattie Bolevic & Maxine Gray Aldrich

Provenance

Provenance Detail

A. R. Boera (Dick)