Actually I've just seen "sometimes wireless though". Morse's apparatus needed wires really (although he did experiment with using railway rails).
I give up. LOD - what do you suggest?

I will not speculate over what Mog would define as a house. In my book a house, as we generally think of it, is a building of some kind, made to keep something protected/sheltered from crime, wind, rain and/or other climate related purposes. A museum is defenitely a house

No, it would not, I use the COMMON definition and accepted first impression of a word to avoid confusion. A person lives in a house, a person does not live in a museum or commercial building, at least as far as common sense goes.

It is not a telegraph.

One more try, folks? Give it a go, I enjoy watching you cogitate.

Houses may be occupided by almost anything. There are outhouses, dog houses, boat houses, telegraph houses and so on. There is nothing uncommon with those. Commercial buildings can too have people living in them. Hotels for example.

To reiterate, I use the commonly understood meaning of words, not any possible usage. Otherwise I would be accused of getting cute.

If someone asked you if you lived in a house, but you lived in a hotel, you wouldn't say you did live in a house. If someone pointed out a library to you and asked if it was a house, you would say no. And so forth.

By the way, this unique (only one in universe) item is in a building, just not in a house.

You are defining what I would call a home. A library is usually too a house. I guess it might be a language problem, I call almost everything built to shelter/protect anything as statet in previous posts a house. I would for instance ask someone, what kind of a house is that, and point to the building where the smithsonian's is situated.

Yes, there is a language difference at work here. In American English you would ask what kind of a building it was, not a house. In any case, once more, for clarity's sake, I will state that it is not in a residential building where one or more persons reside. No one lives in the building where this item is "housed". ( )

English is weird language!

So: it may have been in a house in the past just not normally. Now, it is never in a house, but is in a building that most people (but not LOD) would not call a house.

I still think this sounds like something that is now in a museum. The fact that it is unique supports this conjecture.

"It could be said that it transmits" (along wires but sometime wireless), electromagnetic induction results in an electric current. It is bigger than a football but smaller than a car. It's not a telephone or a telegraph. It is part of or connected to something. It requires power to operate. It has some vegetable matter, not living (wood?) but also contains metal.

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Anybody around?

Edison's first phonograph. That's the best I can come up with.

Any other guesses?

Go on, put us out of our misery, you've volounteered the answer to more than 20 questions anyway.

Oh all right. It's Jimi Hendrix's white Stratocaster he played at Woodstock. One for the Mog!


See you all next time (after you're done complaining about this one) in The Mogerator's 20 Questions!

Yeah, I think we can safely say we weren't going to get that, although pickups were mentioned on the wikipedia page for electromagnetic induction...

More elusive answers have been found here before!

Heck, 20 questions has gone crazy