WW1 and the Interwar Years Latest Topicshttps://www.themcn.org/forums/forum/131-ww1-and-the-interwar-years/ WW1 and the Interwar Years Latest TopicsenJust joined todayhttps://www.themcn.org/forums/topic/4456-just-joined-today/ Hi. Just joined this forum and hope it can put me in touch with like minded collectors of WW1 Desert campaign artefacts. Not sure whether I have the right "page" ?? Anyway--I'm keen to collect artefacts from the XXCorps advance to Jerusalem in 1917 via Beersheba--Sheria etc. Specifically anything to do with the 60th Division's actions . Thanks---Dave.

]]>4456Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:12:12 +0000German telephone Handapparathttps://www.themcn.org/forums/topic/4257-german-telephone-handapparat/    Good afternoon gentlemen.

I send you this message to ask for ID help for this Handapparat.

It is very similar to the FF26 with matt finish and mike contacts plate but its lacks PTT button. It is also shorter than FF26 one, with 20,5 centimeter, more or less.

Sure for military use because it shows a WaA of old shape - WaA105 .

Maker is CL AG - CArl Lorenz A.G. -Berlin.

The mobile ring is similar to those employed in FF33 handapparat unlike those fixed rings used by wall mounted telephones.

Thanks in advance.

C.


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]]>4257Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:56:45 +0000WW1 field phone, klappenschrank, batterieshttps://www.themcn.org/forums/topic/4157-ww1-field-phone-klappenschrank-batteries/ https://gmic.co.uk/topic/65968-early-field-phones/

Especially nice is to see those ww1 era batteries,

how well those are preserved!

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]]>3633Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:27:34 +0000THE MORSE MACHINEhttps://www.themcn.org/forums/topic/3873-the-morse-machine/ Spectroscopic Optical Telegraph {The Morse Machine). Don't laugh it's not so simple as you'd think and was probably secure.
www.britishpathe.com/video/the-morse-machine/query/morse
ABSTRACT

489,357. VISIBLE SIGNALLING APPARATUS. BRUSCAGLIONI, R. OCT. 20, 1936, NO. 28534. VOID. CONVENTION DATE, OCT. 21, 1935. DRAWINGS TO SPECIFICATION. [CLASS 118 (II)] LIGHT SIGNALS ARE GIVEN BY FORMING A SPECTRUM AT THE TRANSMITTING STATION, STOPPING OUT PART OR PARTS OF THE SPECTRUM AND RECOMBINING THE LIGHT FOR TRANSMISSION AS A MIXED BEAM. THE PORTION OF THE SPECTRUM STOPPED IS ARRANGED SO AS NOT APPRECIABLY TO EFFECT THE COLOUR OF THE MIXED BEAM AND THE ABSENCE OF THE STOPPED RAYS IS OBSERVED BY SPECTROSCOPIC EXAMINATION AT THE RECEIVING-STATION. THE STOPPING SCREENS MAY BE OPERATED FROM A KEYBOARD AND THE RECEIVED SIGNALS MAY BE RECORDED BY MEANS OF A SPECTROGRAPHIC CAMERA.

]]>3873Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:43:39 +0000WW1 Communicationshttps://www.themcn.org/forums/topic/3543-ww1-communications/ Hello,

It would be very interesting for all those who have the knowledge and images to describe what type of early WW1 communications were used in the trenches?

These very early years must have produced some imaginative, useful and no doubt very ingenuitive products that the War Office and the Generals decided to try out, and eventually use.Interesting would be the trench telephones and the system they used to communicate to each other. Yes they had runners with "Top Priority" messages (as Adolph Hitler was a runner, nearly reaching the centre for the message to be delivered was shot (I think twice?) and was rescued by a fellow German soldier, taken to the aid station and finally recovered----if only he had been left in the mud to die----maybe there would not have been a Second World War???), what type and make were used, what were pretty useless....and those most widely used by the British, French and German Armies.

Thank You All....Looking forward to your 

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