Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent example of a rather rare Signal Lamp dating to the Post Civil War era. The light is untested but we feel that with enough work and the replacement of the glass screen, this should shine bright as it did almost 150 years ago!
A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically using Morse code. The idea of flashing dots and dashes from a lantern was first put into practice by Captain Philip Howard Colomb, of the Royal Navy, in 1867. Colomb's design used limelight for illumination, and his original code was not the same as Morse code. During World War I, German signalers used optical Morse transmitters called Blinkgerät, with a range of up to 8 km (5 miles) at night, using red filters for undetected communications.
This example is in wonderful condition for the age and still remains a good deal of the original details and paint such as the manufacturer marking and the NO. 116 SIGNAL CORPS U.S. ARMY painted marking on the reverse. There is paint loss, minor denting and a few of the glass panels are unfortunately broken. The panels were designed this was in pieces and all of them while they do appear to be broken are not.
A lovely historical item ready for further research and display.
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