Updates
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American Automatic Telephone Company Dial
We acquired a new addition to the JKL Museum Collection. Keith Cheshire acquired this rare for our telephone museum through Steve Flocke at a recent telephone show.
We are very happy to be able to add this dial to our collection of dials at the JKL Museum of Telephony.
Keith Cheshire hopes to provide us with more information about this very interesting dial and its use. He is currently doing some research regarding this dial and we hope to be able to give an update in the not too distant future.
Scroll down for a short video of this dial.
American Automatic Telephone Company Dial
American Automatic Telephone Company Dial
Click here to view this movie on YouTube.
Google Custom Search Option for the JKL Museum website
We’ve added a Google Custom Search option to the telephone museum’s website.
The Google Custom Search helps our telephone museum’s website visitors find the information they’re looking for.
Get your own Google Custom Search Option:
Go to https://cse.google.com/cse/ to create a Google Custom Search for your own site.
Google makes it very easy to setup your own Google custom search. Just login to https://cse.google.com/cse/ using your Gmail account and following the instructions. Please note that the free edition of Google CSE comes with ads, you can upgrade to Site Search with optional ads.
Virtual Exhibits created with PastPerfect Museum Software
Up till now we’ve added the following so-called Virtual Exhibits created with PastPerfect Museum Software to our telephone museum’s website:
- Early Telephone Apparatus
- AUTOVON: Telephones and equipment
- Batteries: Various types of batteries and battery containers as used by the Bell System and others
- Pre—production models, prototype, display telephones, and related objects
The Virtual Exhibits show various objects that are on display at the JKL Museum.
We plan to add more Virtual Exhibits to our website in the near future.
The SEEANDBEE Telephone at the JKL Museum
The SEEANDBEE Telephone at the JKL Museum
While working on the cataloging project at the JKL Museum, we discovered a small ships telephone made by Kellogg. The telephone is located in the telephone museum’s section for telephones made for use outside and or in hazardous locations or for the use on ships.
This little black telephone is made from sheet metal and fitted with a transmitter marked “STEAMER SEEANDBEE” and “KELLOGG” on the faceplate. The receiver is secured with a nickel plated clamp to prevent it from falling.
The Seeandbee telephone
JKL Museum cataloging project started
JKL Museum cataloging project started
The JKL Museum has started a cataloging project using PastPerfect 5.0 Museum Software. All the telephone museum’s objects, photos, archives, and books will be added to a museum database.
It will take “some” time until everything has been described and photographed but it will be worth it.
One of the many benefits is the posibility to share the telephone museum objects online in so-called virtual exhibits.