Relief-writer telegraph with weight drive, built as part of the Bremen-Bremerhaven line

This telegraph station is one of the oldest European Morse telegraphs. William Robinson and his stepson Charles came to Hamburg in May 1847 with 2 Morse code writers from Chubbuck's workshop in Utica, NY. In 1847–48, they sold 2 units each to the Hanover state railway, the Hamburg-Cuxhaven lines, the Bremen-Bremerhaven line, and to the Kingdom of Prussia for the Berlin-Cologne line. The Robinsons, therefore, played a central role in establishing Germany's first telegraph lines.