Kleinschmidt keyboard perforator

A QWERTY keyboard operate hole punches that prepare a Wheatstone slip.

Each Morse code of the dots and dashes for the letter is selected by projecting tongues on the key bar.

Kleinschmidt wanted to develop a product that could be sold to telegraph companies rather than just selling patents.

As a result of this order, the Kleinschmidt Electric Company was formed to manufacture the perforator.

[2] In London they were sold by Creed & Co,[3] which had a sales contract with the Kleinschmidt Electric Company.