Every tech item was high tech at one point in history.

So, what you're getting at is, these were, if you had the transceiver model, kind of the world's first portable instant messaging app. Eat your heart out, AOL

What an amazing piece of history you have! It can be said that I own an extensive collection of telegraph equipment and I can honestly say I’ve never seen one of these!

This is so beautifully designed. They really had a good eye back then

The original wire tap device for intercepting telegraph traffic during espionage or investigations.

It reminds me of a gadget from the old "Wild Wild West" TV show.

What a neat piece of history.

Basically a lineman's test set

The screws are the same as the screws on a full size sounder where the gap and the spring are used to get a good sound at whatever voltage or current is supplied where you make the connection. Electromagnet field strength is determined only by current and number of turns, and telegraph systems are designed based on current. There were no voltage amplifiers until later.

From a time when things worked a lifetime + So fantastic ❤

The important thing with a telegraph armature is current, not voltage. It takes voltage to generate current of course, but without some resistance you can burn out a coil if you're not careful.

Those are the hands of a working man

Awesome portable antique tech!

Thank you for posting! This piece of history is fascinating,

very cool video brother, makes a fella nostalgic for a world when technology was more exciting

This is insane. Pocket morse telegraph... Genius developer device.

You could make a nice wood base so it looks like how you would display a watch, but hide the bluetooth in the base with a couple of pins sticking up, no need to modify the item at all And at that voltage, a lipo battery should work fine ;) Use watch oil for lubrication.

Very interesting little device. I think its a neat idea if these thinfs where popular in a pre phone world. plug your pocket telegraph into a landline and send messages to someone.

Gorgeous little device. What a great find.

That is really cool, thank you for sharing!!! I really enjoy Morse Code, and really like learning about different products.

What a beautiful piece, thanks for sharing

Awesome, thanks for the video, I love obscure tech!

That's a lovely thing. I've never seen one before.

My great grandfather had one. The way it worked ( the way he said) is that they would find major telegraph lines and wire tgem through the watch and camp there for a few days. The changes in the telegraph line would do as the video showed. In his deployment he used one to transcribe 27 messages from Morse code. A problem they had though is that they would damage easily from over usage.

Amazing telegraph pocket watcher

That’s a very unique and very cool item, thank you for sharing with us

Antique cellular telegraphy. Awesomeness.

That's really cool! 😮 I enjoy this kinda stuff

It would be useful for anyone repairing telegraph lines, and possibly for someone working on a railroad track if there was a telegraph line running with it.

looks like something you'd take to antique's roadshow

Obviously, man that uses his hands for good ! As a licensed Amateur radio operator, I saw one of these in a collection.

Very cool relic, thanks for sharing.

I bet James West had one!

Some of these units also have built-in Telegraph keys, or contactors. That would work by pushing down on the adjustment knobs. The connections were made, with a slot that was cut into the bottom of the case. You could slip a bare wire inside of with one connection, the other one was made through a very small phenolic or porcelain insulator with a sleeve that you could put a wire into. Usually there was a set of wires with jumper clips would be carried in your pocket along with it. These were normally carried by signal and test man. Working on Telegraph circuits. As a faster method of pulling out your actual test set that had a line meter a battery, and usually a couple different Sounders to change the line current

Wow that's a great find , never saw or heard of them

Super cool device. Never seen one before but I don’t know much about the telegraph equipment.

A cool little gadget.

Looks very interesting

Wow. What a cool find!

I am in that FB Group. This is pretty neat. I'll have to look at the group page.

That’s really really cool!

Basically the ancestor of the I-phone.

Wow, I had NO IDEA!!! AMAZING!

Too cool. It's a portable surveillance gizmo. Wiretapping device in your pocket.

super cool! thanks for sharing!

Age is just a number, everyone can be baffled and amused for hours guessing what antique gadgets do? 🤔😂

Interesting piece. Thanks

Awesome piece 👌

Beautiful !

Thanks so much for sharing this!!! So cool!!!!

Thank you.

very awesome never seen one either thanks for shareing

Cool! Similar to the gadget taped to the blackjack cheater in the movie “Casino”, but not as crude

Aye, nice find . Thanks for sharing.

That is so cool bro

Try some sewing machine oil on it. It's great for little mechanisms.

I was briefly confused and wondered why NurdRage had another channel.

This looks pretty neat, i'll google sounding for more sounder content Oh good heavens

Ah at first i thought this would have been a miniature spark gap RF transmitter.

I hope the press doesn't get hold of it! What with all the phone hacking. I don't want people listening in on my morse code porn!

Pretty sweet!

that's really cool.

Interesting video...👍

Well I definitely see it used as a spy gadget I don't think that would be the primary case but I'm sure for the right individual it was useful. It's much more on par with pricing of what a current day fluke would be. There are network testers that are $1500+ that do everything. Then there's some cheaper ones in the $800 to $1000 range that don't do quite as much. And then there's some cheap $10 network testers that almost barely tell you that it's working. I would imagine this is something a technician would carry and it would be small and lightweight. and it may or may not have been owned by the corporation they were working for.

A pager from the late 1800's, that's nuts lol

Wow how cool

I'd love to find one of these. I'd wear it as a pocketwatch.

Nice find … such a thing must have been Fantastic to any boy that caught sight of it. Totally Science Fiction … for its day.

Very cool 👍

My bet is that it is a clandestine listening device to intercept telegraphic traffic.

Now THAT is COOL!

❤ 4v is what my 50s gear uses ❤ thought it was an old tattoo relay 😂

Interesting find. At first I thought it was some sort of spy equipment. Although there probably wasn't that much spying going on during the Victorian era.

You could make a little stand for it that has electronics in it to occasionally send out a message.

Neato ✌🏻😎

19th century smartwatch

Seems to be kind of a 19th century "butt set".

Awsome litle machine. I was thinking, the noise it does when diferent currents, pass throthg it, could not that be used to recieve morse code too ? This could be like a proto pager and later walkie talkie, because, its portable, and you could recieve messages with it. It would be cool to know more about it. Thank you for sharing :D

i know well and true i have no need for such a device.... but damn it i still kinda want one, thanks for sharing!

Morse code key fob

Neat!

Dude, this is cool. I thought it was a pocket watch for a blind person, sounds ever 30mins or so. But what it actually is, is kinda cooler.

cool

Wow it works!!!

Cool tool

Awesome 😊...the mroto startac of the 1900s

I was thinking this was a way to test the line when you mentioned what it was, but do you think it could have been used as a pocket listening device to bug a telegraph line with little to no fuss???

The first pocket phone.

Seems like it could be used to eavesdrop when connected in parallel to the comms circuit........

wow...interesting device, with a lot of style, thanks for showing it, it's strange that you are referring to something "presumably used", like a forgotten technology, this is very fantastic and intriguing, it sounds to me like those rockets that reached the moon or The speakers that JBL produced in the seventies that could not be surpassed, and their knowledge has been lost and it is now impossible or very difficult to build them, it really seems to me like an oopart that comes from a parallel reality that was forgotten by an interdimensional traveler, or uses an esoteric and ancient science such as the myth of tartaria. Presumably it can be an intercom that uses static aether luminirefos as the great master maxwel taught us

I always wanted kermit the frog to ta explain antique watches. This is definitely going on the sleep playlist

Maybe for display, you ought to turn the coils around if you can? Maybe turn the whole mechanism? As the coils are obviously bleached on the glass side. Or maybe just use a green marker and freshen up the green? You can get very high end water color markers (not the acrylic ones) that was the standard for drawing ads with back in the day, and they come in all sorts of colors. Maybe try to colormatch? Make sure you don't get a paint marker. The thread around the magnet wire will soak up the color with just normal water based ones. That slightly pale bluish green is really nice with the silver!

I wonder if the basis of a relay, was from the electro- mechanics of a telegraph sounder?

How was this used?! Did every user plug in to a hot/cold electric source?

I can imagine these would have been used by Texas Rangers, Marshalls, Railway Men, and others for more than testing. To send messages on the line so that people in the local telegraph office wouldn't know a message was being sent or received.

Isn't telegraph wire operated @ 1.8 - 3.3 V? Isn't 4 V still too high?

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3:30 it jamming because they used to oil springs, likely the oil has coagulated. But it also might have some form of insulation between the two shafts that’s rotted

Nerdrage?

Wow! it is antique! like telegraphic sound device but question is that how they decode ??? interesting.