GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF THIS ON-LINE CYBER-MUSEUM:
This on-line cyber-museum was established and put on the internet in 1995.
It strives to display as much information and as many
illustrations of Telegraph Instruments, Cipher Machines, Microphones,
Old Radios, and Old Scientific and Psychological Instrumentation as
possible. It has been frequently updated as website technology has
improved.
An on-line cyber-museum has a number of advantages over traditional museums.
The primary advantage is that it can be visited at any time from anywhere in
the world without the need to travel.
Most traditional museums can only display a very small fraction of their
general holdings due to limited availability of display space. An on-line
cyber-museum such as this can display all of the items in its collections as
well as those of other collectors since storage space is inexpensive and
virtually unlimited.
Another major advantage is that the entire collection can be searched
easily to find specific items or information about specific items.
Simply click on the frequently updated list of keys in my collection
from the main telegraph page... or go to its URL at:
http://w1tp.com/perkcol.htm... or
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/perkcol.htm
Download it into an ascii file in your computer. Then use the search
feature of your word processor to locate any key or manufacturer.
Read the description and, if you wish, take the key number and go to the
museum pages to view a photograph of most items.
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CYBER-MUSEUM:
This museum is set up in a no-frills format for serious collectors who
already know something about telegraph instruments and who want to be
able to see quite detailed photographs of them. Brief descriptions of
each item are keyed to as many photographs as it has been possible to
digitize. The photographs are separated from the text and saved in
the *** .JPG or .GIF format. This technique allows the illustrations to be
downloaded with ease by most internet browsers. All material is
copyrighted and you must obtain permission via the email address
given below for any commercial use of the text or illustrations. Personal use
and display in a not-for-profit format does not require special permission.
The photographs are digitized in high enough resolution to allow downloading
of images that are suitable for use in research, for saving as files, and even
for printing. This, unfortunately, means that the photographs may take a
considerable time to download. To make this unfortunate necessity a bit more
tolerable, the size of most photographs is given in kilobytes as a rough
indication of how long it will take to download the file.
As time permits, descriptions are being lengthened, and new illustrations
are being be added.
NOTE: I AM ALWAYS LOOKING TO BUY OR TRADE TELEGRAPH KEYS !
Tom Perera Ph. D. - W1TP
Professor Emeritus
Montclair State University