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Telegraph Sounder

음향인자전신기 ( 音響印字電信機 )

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Classification National Registered Cultural Heritage
Name of Cultural Properties Telegraph Sounder
Quantity One Item
Designated Date 2009.04.22
Age 1955
Address KT Wolgok Branch, 67-48, Wolgok 2-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul

This was manufactured by Japanese Electric Charging Industrial Co. Ltd., OKI) in 1955. This acoustic-factored telegraphic instrument takes advantage of the electric current by encoding the character information into the change of messages. Those were used in the post offices and telephone companies to transmit telegrams. The Morse-Coded Transmitters had been used until the teletypewriter (TTY) was introduced to Korea.