Harrumph. These iPad things are far from having proven themselves as a
lasting technological success. The telegraph, on the other hand, has been
around for nearly a century and a half. While the directors at Bell
Industries bows down to the likes of Tesla and Jobs, we at Felder
Enterprises hold Samuel Morse and Daniel Farenheit as our guiding lights.
We are currently looking into a flip-top bakelite cover for a
console-mounted telegraph key. Some serious design work was done and
actually used in all the Luftwaffe craft that were outfitted with a
telegraph about the time the the British began using them in their Spads.
Felder Enterprises has obtained shop drawings and has viewed actual
examples of these covers, which prevent dust and oxidation from encroaching
upon the sensitive brass leaves of the mechanism, but are always ready to
transmit with a single bat of the glove. None of this "screen-swiping" that
the lastest generation of frippery and gee-gaws with touchy-feely screens
demand.

And--get this--the proposed bakeline telgraph key cover, when reversed all
the way over its pivot, will operate a microswitch that will illuminate a
slide rule clip with ample room for the device and piano key felt to keep
from shattering the ivory edges at low temperatures!! What's your big move
now, Bell?

A polite note: As always, though, the machine work of Bell Industries�if
misguided in its direction�is first class.

Jim Felder
Executive Chief Evangelist
Felder Industries Eastern Division

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Perhaps not the best thing to come out of the R&D department at Bell
> Industries, but it seems to work.
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/vanagon-ipad-mount-mk-ii/
>
> I wonder how Felder International is coming along with their Vanagon
> telegraph mount?
>
> :)
>
> alistair
>