Mystery Piece of Cold War electronics

[madd0ct0r]

Any one out there who can identify this?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3412/3662346870_be42e081b7.jpg

I know it's failry old - at least 1986 if not earlier. three layers of label.

the top one is possibly homemade and just indecipherable numbers.
second one describes it as a "Sensitact relay"
Full scale deflection 66 uA
moving coil resistance 1100 ohms
max contact power handling at 10V (ac or cd) max 30 mW

Orgional label is in french!
A relais magnetoelectrique
8 pins -
2-7 are circuit de commande
1- contact mobile
4- contact mini
5- contact maxi

there is another photo of the little dial on the top but i'm having trouble uploading it. there are no units on the dial.

[knowledgegranted]

That my friend is an electro magnetic relay. It was an 1986 viso from French Switzerland. At the same time we were producing ones that looked like this:

http://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/PHOTOS/relay/ng/relay-overall-size.jpg


If you would like to learn about them yourself read up here:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/g_knott/elect129.htm

[nevermind1534]

Looks almost like a vacuum tube.