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Jeff Thompson

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Tag: Siemens

Posted on May 27, 2016May 27, 2016

Telex

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Every since the Radiohead song of the same name popped up in my iTunes shuffle today, I’m feeling the telex love. Above is the Siemens T100 machine which, if anyone is wondering what to get my for my birthday, this would be it 😊

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Another shot of the T100.

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A Siemens and Halske “fast-acting type printing telegraph; average 2000 characters in a minute” from 1905.

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And a German stamp from 1953 celebrating the telex.

 

Artist, musician, programmer, educator, hacker, curator, explainer. Assistant Professor and Program Director of Visual Art & Technology at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

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