Syphon recorder
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syphon-recorder-240-5503378
title:
Syphon recorder
text:
The syphon or siphon recorder is an obsolete electromechanical device used as a receiver for submarine telegraph cables invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in 1867. It automatically records an incoming telegraph message as a wiggling ink line on a roll of paper tape. Later a trained telegrapher would read the tape, translating the pulses representing the "dots" and "dashes" of the Morse code to characters of the text message. The syphon recorder replaced Thomson’s previous invention, t
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description:
Device used to inscribe telegrams
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphon_recorder
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date modified:
2022-01-28T09:47:27Z
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