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Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Monthly Museum: Patch Panel – et cetera...
blog.etcconnect.com: Welcome to Monthly(ish) Museum, where we periodically feature highlights from ETC’s collection of historical lighting industry gear and ephemera. This installment: a Kliegl Bros. patch panel.
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Sydney Asselin
said...
I, myself, have never used a patch board, but I have always wanted to pretend I was a mid-century telephone switchboard operator. I have had "The Cable Girls" in my Netflix queue for months. The patch panel looks like a solid piece of machinery that would be satisfying to plug and unplug things into, like a telephone switchboard. The Monthly Museum says that the patch panel was manufactured in 1972, but it really looks like it had been designed in the forties. The museum also says the patch panel had been installed in Jefferson Middle School, but I do not think I would trust middle schoolers anywhere near that thing, lest they (like middle schoolers often do) (un)intentionally screw many things up. It also goes to show the funding of schools in Virginia that that patch panel was only replaced by more modern equipment in 2006. That means that that panel, for a majority of its life, was more than twice the age of an average middle schooler.
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I, myself, have never used a patch board, but I have always wanted to pretend I was a mid-century telephone switchboard operator. I have had "The Cable Girls" in my Netflix queue for months. The patch panel looks like a solid piece of machinery that would be satisfying to plug and unplug things into, like a telephone switchboard. The Monthly Museum says that the patch panel was manufactured in 1972, but it really looks like it had been designed in the forties. The museum also says the patch panel had been installed in Jefferson Middle School, but I do not think I would trust middle schoolers anywhere near that thing, lest they (like middle schoolers often do) (un)intentionally screw many things up. It also goes to show the funding of schools in Virginia that that patch panel was only replaced by more modern equipment in 2006. That means that that panel, for a majority of its life, was more than twice the age of an average middle schooler.
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