Richard,
I dunno of any compiled list of links ... the only ones I have handy (i.e.,
links immediately at-had ... or more correctly, at finger-click) are the
ones that Princeton Imaging has put on their website:
1881 edition of Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (full-page plates of
all three massive volumes):
http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/mechanical-dictionary/
1916 Western Electric catalog (entire ... has illustrations of just about
everything related to early phones & phone systems, plus anything else
electrical):
http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/western_electric_catalog_1916/
1902 Sears catalog (sample pages only, since they're selling a CD of this
... certainly worth the money since it's searchable):
http://www.princetonimaging.com/cdrom/sears/
Surely would be nice if someone ("hint" "hint" .... like maybe ... ummmmm
Anita ?) compiled and published such a list of links to these great
resources (instead of Carol and me having to search Google until our
mouse-click-fingers bleed to find them each time they're needed).
Bob Skiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Can anyone identify these?
> Bob
>
> Is there any list of these fabulous early catalogues, that have put on the
> web?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: Re: Can anyone identify these?
> From: Bob Skiles <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:01:52 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>>For those who couldn't find the Columbia batteries illustrated at the link
>>I provided ... sorry ... they are two pages further on in the catalog
>>(page 398, not on page 396 where the link I gave takes you) ... try this:
>>
>>http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/western_electric_catalog_1916/djvu/INDEX.djvu?djvuopts&page=p0398.djvu
>>
>>Also, for those who advise they couldn't "see anything at all" ... you
>>will need the new (free) djvu viewer plugin (from LizardTech), you can
>>download it, here (and it's highly recommended for labroids who need to
>>peruse graphics intensive publications, like old catalogs ...
>>more-and-more of these will be available in the djvu format in the future
>>... takes just a minute to install the plugin):
>>
>>Windows:
>>http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp#win
>>
>>Mac
>>http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp#mac
>>
>>Unix:
>>http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp#uni
>>
>>After you have the plugin, then you can flip-thru such fabulous early
>>catalogs as this one:
>>
>>Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1881 Edition
>>
>>http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/mechanical-dictionary/
>>
>>
>>> Simon,
>>>
>>> Judging from the dimensions of your cell (appears to be about 1.75" x
>>> 2.5"
>>> from the scale in your photos), then your parts may be from a plain ol'
>>> "Columbia" brand rectangular telephone dry-cell (also manufactured by
>>> Western Electric), either of List No. R-10 (1.75" x 2.25") or R-11 (2" x
>>> 2.5") size (you should allow a little for the thickness of the exterior
>>> casing, which yours is missing), see:
>>>
>>> http://www.princetonimaging.com/library/western_electric_catalog_1916/djvu/INDEX.djvu?djvuopts&page=p0396.djvu
>>>
>>> Bob Skiles
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