# \["BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" AND MODERN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS\]

\["BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" AND MODERN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS\] 1918 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Man operating radio equipment, man dressed as Benjamin Franklin sitting in chair watching, ‘Franklin’ puts on earphones, operator moves apparatus, focuses it on Franklin - recording machine - telegrams move along conveyor belt, drop into basket - telegraph keys - rack of cylinders with rolled up messages in them - girls sorting messages - date and time received stamped on telegrams - message moves on wire conveyor - girls sorting telegrams - wire conveyor - Western Union teletype machine with sign, ‘Direct from New York’ - close-up of teletype in operation - country scene - Franklin flying a kite - kite flying - lightening - Franklin in field with kite - electrical wiring system \[Circuit breakers, electrical control, for railroad\] - trains passing through railroad yard - demonstration of communications system for Franklin - Franklin in office where operators use telegraph keys, watches man sending message, they talk - antenna tower - boy at key, Franklin watches - antenna tower - repeat boy at key - woman telephone switchboard operator talks to Franklin, shows him head phone, switchboard with operators in background - Franklin receives lesson on talking into phone - Franklin at desk writing with quill pen - Franklin enters hand print shop, hands paper to worker, watches worker setting type, takes printed page from…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1918
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-96)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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