The Museum of Telecommunication, aka, The Telephone Museum, is a must see for any tinkerer. Run by folks who spent a good chunk of time working for the phone company, this place is a treasure trove of gadgets and telecommunication devices. Rich Barger took my friends and I on a tour around 2 floors of amazing clicking machines and explained the magic of telephones, switchboards, relays, and showed us how it all works. If there is a machine that has been used in communicating over wires, they’ve got it there and it works.
Norm and Barb volunteer there maintaining the nation’s fleet of tape machines for the blind.
Here’a a human-sized phone… it works!
There are a lot of antique ham radios there too.
Beth tried on this old school phone operator gear… that thing around her neck is called a “spit cup.”
Open only on Tuesdays from 8:30-2, the Telephone Museum is at 7000 Marginal Way in Seattle- Map Link
Click here to see the all of the photos I took at the museum! - Link
Beth made up a haiku for the Museum of Telecommunication!
Telephone
dial, switch and relay
click, clack, ring.
wow, how come i never heard about this place while living in seattle?!?
nice picture of beth and the spit cup - hello beth!
Wow. We have “Retro Dork”-theme next Wednesday at Dorkbot, Bre: can we use your pictures as slides for socializing time?
Just thought that I would drop a note to say “Hi”!
What a neat place. It was nice meeting you folks on the tour yesterday. The electro-mechanical switching technology of the past is a wonder to behold!
I like the other photos that you posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bre/sets/72157594561309516
That fisheye lens that you were using distorts the image a little bit, but the pictures came out great.
Good job!
Carl
There’s another telephone museum in Roseville, CA. On the Web at http://www.rosevilletelephonemuseum.org/
No photos online, though.
I would love to visit the museum.
Unfortunately, your Government’s War on Tourism makes this impossible.
A “spit cup”… that’s disgusting… I love the picture of Norm & Barb
they seem so nice.
The MoC’s address changed to http://www.museumofcommunications.org/ a few months ago.