/members-area/personalblogs/b/john-wiltrout-s-blog/posts/western-electric-interrupterIt is always hard for me to not be amazed by the technological progress that has been made in the last 50 or so years. The other day I came across an unusual motorized switch that was made for Western Electric by Raymond Controls Corp. It is a KS-191en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/john-wiltrout-s-blog/posts/western-electric-interrupterSun, 11 Aug 2019 02:25:35 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f4242ccd-64f7-4e4b-90c0-fb6abeb486dbclem570<p>I could watch this endlessly. Nice fine <span>[mention:f80b53cee57c44bc9d7c577d07d7c791:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]</span></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7078&AppID=315&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/john-wiltrout-s-blog/posts/western-electric-interrupterThu, 16 May 2019 13:52:35 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f4242ccd-64f7-4e4b-90c0-fb6abeb486dbFred272<p>Great to see it inaction.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I remember as a kid my uncle took me to his work at the telephone exchange. That was back in the day when the pulses sent from your phone would actually cause physical contacts to move an connect different lines. I can still remember seeing it all working away. Difficult to describe, but this BT video from 1982 shows what I mean:</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAjCeHRgMA&amp;t=5m49s" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAjCeHRgMA&amp;t=5m49s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAjCeHRgMA&amp;t=5m49s</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Maybe this was used for something similar?</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7078&AppID=315&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">