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Telegraph Key Used by Theodore Haubner to Send the First "SOS" Distress Signal on August 11, 1909
J.H.Bunnell & Company1892/1905
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
In 1909, telegraph operator Theodore Haubner sent the first American ship-to-shore wireless distress signal -- SOS -- using this telegraph key. Haubner was aboard the SS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, when it became disabled.
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- Title: Telegraph Key Used by Theodore Haubner to Send the First "SOS" Distress Signal on August 11, 1909
- Creator: J.H.Bunnell & Company
- Date: 1909-08-11
- Date Created: 1892/1905
- Location: United States, New York, New York City, Manhattan, United States, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras, Diamond Shoals (sand bar)
- Subject Keywords: Haubner, Theodore D., Arapahoe (Ship), Clyde Steamship Company, Distress signals, Firsts, Steamships, Telegraphs, Telegraph keys
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Patent Date: 1909
- Object Name: Telegraph key
- Object ID: 68.2.3
- Inventor: Theodore Haubner
- Invention: SOS Signal
- Image ID: THF101950
- Field: Radio
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Dorothy S. Haubner.
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