MysteryStevenson1
Unknown Object Western Electric
Just an electrical device that I own but have not identified, and would like to do so. It's marked on white ceramic as Western Electric.Made in USA. The connections on the large white section are marked G for the one at the bottom and the two on either side are marked I. The smaller secondary ceramic area near the top has 2 marks at the connections there L. I can guess that perhaps the L's stand for line, and the G is for ground .The I's are more difficult, perhaps input or impedance, and the metal cylinder is just a screw on cover for an odd arrangement of conductors in ceramic and metal seperators with perhaps some carbon rectangles also interspaced between insulators with a conductor that seems to go (perhaps to the ground) within the base of the socket. Note as well that the smaller ceramic area at the top has a marking of 16MTG. On the large placard below all of these components is marked ; 48BMTG. All of this is mounted on a wooden base consisting of 4 sections of tongue and groved wood perhaps 6 inches wide in total. From it's obviously older age, there was no need to assemble such a small piece of wood from smaller labor intensive grooved sections of wood, so that seems curious.The 2 long "bars that go from the upper insulators to the large lower one are curuious and consist of two different objects, one of which looks like a Copper strip and then below that,(not obvious in the photo) is a rod that looks like it might be a very long resistor, but all are connected at the same screw connections and so must not be resistors as the copper would carry the flow around a resistor because of much lowered resistance to current. So those rods are most likely not actually resisters, Any ideas as to what this object was made for, would be appreciated.
Unknown Object Western Electric
Just an electrical device that I own but have not identified, and would like to do so. It's marked on white ceramic as Western Electric.Made in USA. The connections on the large white section are marked G for the one at the bottom and the two on either side are marked I. The smaller secondary ceramic area near the top has 2 marks at the connections there L. I can guess that perhaps the L's stand for line, and the G is for ground .The I's are more difficult, perhaps input or impedance, and the metal cylinder is just a screw on cover for an odd arrangement of conductors in ceramic and metal seperators with perhaps some carbon rectangles also interspaced between insulators with a conductor that seems to go (perhaps to the ground) within the base of the socket. Note as well that the smaller ceramic area at the top has a marking of 16MTG. On the large placard below all of these components is marked ; 48BMTG. All of this is mounted on a wooden base consisting of 4 sections of tongue and groved wood perhaps 6 inches wide in total. From it's obviously older age, there was no need to assemble such a small piece of wood from smaller labor intensive grooved sections of wood, so that seems curious.The 2 long "bars that go from the upper insulators to the large lower one are curuious and consist of two different objects, one of which looks like a Copper strip and then below that,(not obvious in the photo) is a rod that looks like it might be a very long resistor, but all are connected at the same screw connections and so must not be resistors as the copper would carry the flow around a resistor because of much lowered resistance to current. So those rods are most likely not actually resisters, Any ideas as to what this object was made for, would be appreciated.