One pair of telegraph pole climbers
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- A pair of metal spikes used by line maintenance personnel to climb a wooden telegraph pole. User would strap one spike on each foot. Leather straps are missing. The collecting curator wrote: "Made of wrought iron, 26 inches high. The lower portion, made to attach to the foot of the climber, 2 has a bottom plate, 12 inches long, with an iron arch in front, a short spike for the heel and loops for an instep strap. At its forward end there are two sharp points which stick into the pole. The upper portion is formed of a long, curved rod with a 4 pointed end to hook around the pole. The weight of the climber presses the points into opposite sides of the pole and holds them fast. This is one of the early forms of pole climbers, used prior to the year 1848."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from Robert E. Chetwood
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1846
- ID Number
- EM.276677
- catalog number
- 276677
- accession number
- 55236
- Object Name
- Pole Climber
- Other Terms
- Pole Climber; Telegraphy
- Measurements
- overall: 26 in x 12 in x 12 in; 66.04 cm x 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Record ID
- nmah_702194
