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Still Amazing! 1950's Teleregister Numerical Displays

🕑 Added 2020-12-07 03:17:08 +0000 UTC

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I saw a brochure on eBay for the stock boards using these. The listing implied the brochure was from the 1933 World's Fair

Another engrossing upload ❤️.

Peter Knazko

Funny, it's 5 weeks older than me!

The 1962 one is just one month older than me :)))

Fran Blanche

Oh, man - I know!

Fran Blanche

Oh, likely not a 'font' per se, but just graphics the company made up to fill the space.

I was JUST going to mention the train schedule displays! I think I read somewhere the the new ones are digital but they still make the "noise" because passengers are conditioned to check the board when they hear it.

David Peaker

I know they used a different technology to this, but railway stations and airports just haven't been the same since they ditched their mechanical displays.

John McCormick

I can just imagine the racket that these make with a large bank of them being reset at the same time.

Christian Elzey

That electromechanics of that are very similar to that of old Simplex master clock system clocks. Impulse every minute steps the hands forward one minute (very similar ratchet solenoid mechanism), and at the top of the hour a contact becomes disengaged requiring a pulse on a different wire to advance it to x:01.

HarveyB

This brings to mind the gymnasium scoreboard at my high school back in the 60's. The old scoreboard had played its last game and was replaced by a new "modern" unit that would remotely show the score! The display consisted of two discs with numerals 0 through 9 around the periphery and visible through a hole in the face of the board. Each had a big chunky solenoid and ratchet wheel to rotate the discs behind the viewing hole, and a pair of push-button switches on the control console to pulse solenoids. I thought this was the ultimate in sophisticated display technology! Fascinating enough that I still remember it sixty years later!

William Nimmo

love it any display is great thanks again for your Stuff there Fran

Eric Strathmeyer

Fran, that is so cool! You are out-doing yourself with these weird-and-awesome displays lately. :D I love that it "sticks" at the blank digit until the other tab is pulsed. I wonder how many different engineers had to write code to clear this display by pulsing every digit 11 times. Bert is right. The fonts on these old displays are super cool. I don't know if the right path is Patreon, or Kickstarter, or Fontspring, or something else… but I would throw some money at fonts based on esoteric displays (purely out of principle), and I would wager that more than a few other people feel the same.