W1TP TELEGRAPH & SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS: http://w1tp.com
and: ENIGMA MUSEUM: https://EnigmaMuseum.com
Welcome from: - Tom Perera - W1TP

0063.jpg Early Telegraph Key These Online MUSEUMS are dedicated to the PRESERVATION of TELEGRAPH, RADIO and SCIENTIFIC History, Instrumentation: and Lore since time gradually makes familiar objects unfamiliar. These are no-frills museums designed in 1990 for rapid and easy searching and downloading to facilitate research by serious collectors and historians but accessible to anyone who is interested in telegraph, radio and scientific instruments. As a radio and telegraph operator and collector for over 70 years, I have assembled a collection of over 3000 telegraph keys, radios, microphones and scientific instrument descriptions and photographs and put them in these online museums to make them accessible for generations to come.


SCROLL down this Long Page to View Entire Website in this order:
Telegraph Museum, History, Projects, References Events and Publications.
OTHER MUSEUMS: Enigmas, Scientific Instruments, Radios, Microphones, Quack Medical Devices. Contact Information.


  • GENERAL HISTORICALINFORMATION: about the History of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

  • SPECIAL REPORTS and NEWS:

  • ADDITIONAL MUSEUM: THE ENIGMA, CIPHER MACHINE and other Cipher Machines: https://EnigmaMuseum.com
    An On-Line Museum with (copyrighted) downloadable descriptions & illustrations of Enigma and other Cipher machines.

  • OTHER MUSEUMS: ENIGMA CIPHER MACHINES, COMPUTERS, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, & PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS, RADIOS and MICROPHONES:

  • OTHER TELEGRAPH COLLECTORS: and samples from their COLLECTIONS.

  • INTERNET TELEGRAPH LINKS: to other telegraph-related sites.
    Modern searech engines will find relevant information much better than I can do in this website so please use them to find addiitonmal information.


  • SPECIAL TELEGRAPH-RELATED RESOURCES:

    * * TELEGRAPH COLLECTORS REFERENCE CD (NEW 2nd. Edition) * * (Details & Ordering Information)
    Twice the material in the first edition. Over 7000 Inline Photographs, Illustrated Books, Videos & Reference Information. For PC and MAC!.$15. Page showing corrections:

    * * Perera's TELEGRAPH COLLECTORS GUIDE (NEW 3rd. Edition) * * (Details & Ordering Information)
    104 pages, 300 photographs, descriptions, prices, 1600 item index, for only $19.95 !
    (IMPORTANT REVISION: Latest Internet-Revised Price Guide) ** (Corrections) ** (Info & Updates for the 2nd. Edition) ** (Info & Updates for the 1st. Edition)

    * * HOW TO RESTORE TELEGRAPH KEYS: W.R. Smith, W4PAL * * (Details & Ordering Information)
    The best and only book of its kind; displays every procedure !

    * * AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH HISTORY CD-ROM: Ron McMullen * *
    (His entire CD and collection is now free at:
    https://australiantelegraph.wordpress.com/contents/)
    This is the only compendium of Australian Telegraph and Key History ever published !

    * * THE STORY OF THE ENIGMA CD: History, Technology, and Deciphering (NEW 4th Edition) * * (Details & Ordering Information)
    This newly expanded CD is a complete cipher machine library. It has twice the material in the 3rd edition. It tells the complete story of the ENIGMA ! Thousands of pictures, books, Enigma simulator programs, construction projects, other cipher machines, realistic videos... and much more. $15. ** (Updates & Corrections)

    * * NEW BOOK: INSIDE ENIGMA: Inside the German ENIGMA and other Historic Cipher Machines(Details & Ordering Information)
    This new book contains 208 pages and over 500 pictures that exlain the history and workings of the ENGIMA and other cipher machines including the Russian Fialka. $20. ** (Updates & Corrections)

    * * The Antique Wireless Assocation TELEGRAPH ANTHOLOGY CD: Every telegraph article ever published by AWA and much more! $15.

    SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS and TELEGRAPH-RELATED EVENTS:
    I try to attend these events every year and HIGHLY RECOMMEND them to telegraph enthusiasts:
    DAYTON HAMVENTION: www.hamvention.org (The biggest in the world. May. Dayton, Ohio)
    ANNUAL ANTIQUE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION CONVENTIONS: http://www.antiquewireless.org: (August. Rochester, NY)
    DEERFIELD, NH HAMFEST: www.near-fest.com: Largest swap meet in the Northeast!
    NEW ENGLAND VINTAGE ELECTRONICS CLUB (NEVEC)(Was NEW ENGLAND ANTIQUE RADIO CLUB (NEARC)): A great club with two swap meets and a Big bi-annual meet. In it's 50th year.

    GENERAL INFORMATION:
    (To SEARCH this Website, click on:
    ** SEARCHABLE TELEGRAPH INVENTORY **: Search this big page with the EDIT/FIND-ON-THIS-PAGE function of your browser: Identify the Inventory Number you want: and then find it in the TELEGRAPH MUSEUM SECTION.)


    • Email Address: (To help me avoid automated 'junk mail' programs,
      I ask you to type my email address as follows with no spaces between words:)

    • PLEASE TYPE: keys
    • THEN TYPE THE @ SYMBOL
    • THEN TYPE: w1tp.com

    • Please NOTE: { it is w1tp - W then the NUMERAL "1" (one) then tp }... (It is NOT wLtp or wItp).

    • Please NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE AN ANSWER TO YOUR EMAIL IT MEANS THAT I CAN NO LONGER RESPOND.
      Please use internet search engines to find other information if you do not receive a reply.

    • Please NOTE: You MUST include the word KEYS in the Email Subject Line.
    • Please Sign your email.
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    • ( Please Enquire Before Sending Attachments Larger Than 1MB - Thank you.)
    Internet On-Line Telegraph & Scientific Instrument Museums:
    http://w1tp.com

    Internet ENIGMA Museum:
    https://EnigmaMuseum.com

    COPYRIGHT NOTICE: (Copyright (c) 2023: Prof. Tom Perera Ph. D.)
    Although all the pictures and text are copyrighted, you may use any of them for your own personal applications including public lectures and demonstrations, publications and websites as long as you mention the w1tp.com Museum. If you plan to offer them for sale to the public in any form, please email me for permission which I will generally grant as long as you mention my museum: http://w1tp.com or https://EnigmaMuseum.com My email address is given at the bottom of this page. Some of the material may require contacting other copyright owners for commercial use and I will inform you by email. Please also see the Disclaimer of Warranty.