Antique Kellogg Switchboard Candlestick Mic WWI Kellog T-48 Bakelite Black with microphone cord.

Antique Kellogg Switchboard Candlestick Mic WWI Kellog T-48 Bakelite Black with microphone cord.

Candlestick Model 1910s

Microphone Cord market - NAF NO. 212938-1 - Original WWII Naval Air Force microphone cord. ( very rare )

Size: 29 cm L x 13 cm diameter

Kellogg Model T-48 was issued to the U.S. Military for USAF Air Traffic Control, used throughout WW1 and WW2. ( model T-32 were made with push-to-talk options ), The Bakelite and metal construction are overbuilt (typical for that era), especially when going to the military.

The Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was an American manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. Anticipating the expiration of the earliest, fundamental Bell System patents, Milo G. Kellogg, an electrical engineer, founded the company in 1897 in Chicago to produce telephone exchange equipment and telephone apparatus.

Along with Western Electric, which supplied the Bell System, Automatic Electric supplying General Telephone, and Stromberg-Carlson, also supplying the independent telephone markets, Kellogg shared in the business of providing the bulk of the nation's telephone equipment until after World War II.

The ITT Corporation purchased a controlling interest in the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company in 1952, rebranding the new division's equipment as ITT Kellogg for a decade.[8] In 1958, ITT Kellogg was a contractor to the U.S. Air Force, for which Kellogg build a ground communication system for the ballistic missile base at Cooke Air Force Base.