Telephone
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- OBJECT TYPE
- WALL
- DATE
- 2012
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0007.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Viking Electronics Inc.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Hudson, Wisconsin, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 2912003
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- A synthetic red casing, handpiece, phone cord, a clear phone cradle with a grey synthetic piece and a metal backing with synthetic bracket and cables.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 22.0 cm
- Width
- 10.5 cm
- Height
- 12.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Telephony
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Viking
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Wisconsin
- City
- Hudson
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Saskatchewan
- Period
- until Dec. 2012.
- Canada
-
The telephone comes from the Agrium Vanscoy Potash mine. Vanscoy, Agrium's only potash plant, located in Saskatchewan, accounts for three percent of world potash capacity, making the company the 10th largest producer. Agrium has been expanding the mine and upgrading the equipment since 2009. - Function
-
To allow emergency communication in a mine. - Technical
-
This is a, wall unit, point to point communication system. The phone permits emergency communication between the underground mine and the control without dialing. It can be used on an analog PABX station port or a standard C.O. line. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr's embossed handpiece:"MADE/IN/USA/HI/LOW". Mfr's labels on back:"200220-047-VIK 07/12 HAC/COMPLIES WITH PART 68, FCC RULES/FCC REG. NO.: GV13RE-19475-TE-T/RINGER EQUIV. NO.: 0.5A/USOC NO.: RJ11W/RINGER PROTECTED BY PATENT 4,823,379/MFD BY: CORTELCO CORINTH, MS./MADE IN/USA/WITH PRIDE/ROHS/07.11R2 Base Ass'y ROHS/VIKING/Model: HAC K-1500P-W (WM)/S/N: 29120033/RoHS/P/N:259279D DEV:/Viking Electronics, Inc. (715) 386-8861/1531 Industrial St., Hudson, WI 54016/www.vikningelectronics.com DOD#355." Mfr's stamp[on front]:"VIKING©".
- Missing
- Nothing is missing.
- Finish
- A synthetic red casing, handpiece, phone cord, a clear phone cradle with a grey synthetic piece and a metal backing with synthetic bracket and cables.
- Decoration
- None.
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Viking Electronics Inc., Telephone, circa 2012, Artifact no. 2013.0007, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0007.001/
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