Connections Museum
@connections.museum
Featuring vintage telephone & communications equipment dating to 1885. Fans of relays, electromechanical devices, soldering, and the Bell System. Home to the world's only working Panel Switch.
Anybody in our orbit good at CAD/CAM stuff and have a lil free time for a project? I’d like to get these covers for our 5XB made. I can get exact measurements but I do not have the ability to turn them into something that a manufacturer wants :/
Dual-wielding chain hoists, and using the intergalactic death ray to make sure things are level. The new switchroom in Seattle is coming together!
youtu.be/SzGaWZ8COfk New video, in case you haven't already had it pop up in your recs!
for those of you at VCF PNW this weekend, yep, we are open tomorrow (Sunday)
hmm, sorry, i'm going to make Bell rims now, you can't stop me Saul
#OnThisDay in 1883, a telephone exchange started in Seattle with 90 subscirbers. Henry Yesler reportedly asked whether or not "one could swear over that thing." www.historylink.org/File/875
unhinged patent filing for the no. 5 crossbar. there’s over 100 pages of just this.
We are packing up the JKL Museum switch room for shipment to Seattle, which means that I’m spending the day crawling through the ceiling.
one of our coziest girls, in her natural habitat
🏳️⚧️NotPike🍀@notpike.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis Blåhaj owes rent! :3
Some doofus in the youtube comments section was big mad that the museum's account has pronouns listed. I didn't even know we did, but now I'm keeping them there, just to be a tar-pit to catch the next asshole who wanders through. Trans rights are human rights, motherfucker.
Oh yeah, Western Electric? Tell me more about how you don’t make washing machines and toasters.
nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter
HEY IT'S THE CONNECTIONS MUSEUM ON BLUESKY They're the ones with the amazing 3ESS telephone exchange that I discovered on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=k865... Give them a follow!
Booting up the 3ESS
YouTube video by Connections Museum
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Connections Museum@connections.museum · 2y agoHeyo, it's us, the telephone weirdos. Also on the fediverse tacobelllabs.net/@connections
Also, I know we haven't released any new videos in *ages*. I'm really sorry. I haven't stopped traveling since June. I've got a script written though, so filming should start soon.
Heyo, it's us, the telephone weirdos. Also on the fediverse tacobelllabs.net/@connections