Communication Collection (#8)

Radio receiver. Built in Riga, Latvia, 1958-1960
Radio Receiver. Built in Riga, Latvia, 1958-1960. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph. Colored engravin
Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891). Pantelegraph patented in 1861 for sending and receiving images over long distances through the telegraph. Colored engraving

Electric telegraph receiver by Foy and Breguet
Electrical needle telegraph receiver developed in 1842 by Alphonse Foy and Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883). Back. Nineteenth century colored engraving

Two-valve radio-receiver. 1917. Officine Marconi, Genova. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Operation Gold. Reconstruction of the tunnel built by American intelligence and British between 1954 and 1955 to link the west and east side of the city

Woman police officer on the phone in a police station
Woman police officer (Maggie Coombs) on the telephone in a police station. Date: circa late 1970s

International code of Signals flags and House Flags. circa 1910

Marconi monument, Poldhu, southern Cornwall
Close-up of plaque on the Marconi memorial monument, Poldhu, southern Cornwall. The monument marks the location of Poldhu Wireless Station

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Submarine D 1 with HMS Drake in her wake
British submarine " D 1" with H.M.S. " Drake" following in her wake. All the latest British submarines during the First World War period were fitted with wireless telegraphy

First ride of Pony Express, Missouri to California, USA
Depiction of the first ride of Pony Express, from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, USA, on 3 April 1860. Showing the first messenger setting off on what was the first fast mail line

MEUCCI, Antonio (1808 - 1889). Italian inventor of the telephone. Meuccis telephone. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci

Clouded LEOPARD - snarling (Neofelis nebulosa). Distribution: Nepal - South China. Sumatra, Borneo and Taiwan

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Signalling equipment on the Western Front, WW1
The various instruments used by signallers in transmitting messages on the Western Front during the First World War. In the left hand top corner are the aerial cables conveying telephone or Morse

Postcard advertisement, Transelektro, Budapest, Hungary
Postcard advertisement for Transelektro, electrical manufacturers, Budapest, Hungary. Date: circa 1960s

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

The Communication Trench by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Communication Trench PROBLEM - Whether to walk along the top and risk it, or do another mile of this A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1916

British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Tallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard in Her Cardboard Lover
Tallulah Bankhead and Leslie Howard appearing in in Her Cardboard Lover at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1928. Date: 1928

Naval Signal Flags - Greeting - Christmas Postcard. The translation of this flag series translates as: Keep a Bright. Look Forward (signalled by International code). Date: circa 1910s

The Communication Trench. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

NFS dispatch rider training, WW2
A firewoman dispatch rider under instruction

Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone

London Fire Brigade control room at headquarters. Officers work at computer stations to coordinate fire and rescue operations

Greater London Council (GLC)-LFB Press Conference
The Leader of the GLC (standing), Paddy Henry, Chairman of the GLCs Fire Brigades Committee (to his left) and Joe Milner, Chief Officer of the LFB (far right)

London Fire Brigade street fire alarm and telephone point
In 1904 the Metropolitan Fire Brigade changed its name to the London Fire Brigade. Less than one year later it was possible for crews to call in to Southwark Headquarters from a remote point

World Champion Typist - Albert Tangora
Albert Tangora (1903 1978) set the world speed record for sustained typing on a manual keyboard for one hour, 147 words per minute, on October 22, 1923

Italian Fiat 15 Ter chassis with photoelectric unit, WW1
An Italian Fiat 15 Ter chassis with an auto-photoelectric unit attached, in use during the First World War. Date: 1915

Metropolitan Police headphones and radio

TSF WWII, France
TSF position in France to intercept transmissions during World War II

Abu Simbel, Egypt - Cartouche of Rameses II
Abu Simbel, Cartouche of Rameses II, " One powerful of truth is Ra, he whom Ra has chosen.". Photograph by Lionel Coate"

Battle of Cambrai 1917
British soldiers of the 51st Division crossing a German communication trench moving forward to the attack near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I

Wartime Messenger Dog
A soldier writes a message to give back to a French messenger dog on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

The Bloksberg Tryst
Undated handwritten text regarding and colour illustration of The Bloksberg Tryst. HPF/5C/52

Fire Brigade telephone
An emergency telephone for contacting the fire brigade, housed in a glass case. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

S. F. Cody and War Kite
Samuel Franklin Cody, British- American aviator and inventor of the famous war kite, an early type of aeroplane and communication device

Capture of Chipilly Ridge 1918
Capture of Chipilly Ridge by the 58th (London) Division, Royal Field Artillery Signallers with heliograph etc. in a German trench captured on the previous day on the Western Front in France during

Dr Slade the spirit medium
The trial of Henry Slade, the medium who was said to communicate with spirits by a slate board. Top sketch shows Mr G. Leis, counsel for the Prosecution and bottom image shows Professor E

Pigeon Saves the Day
A broken down seaplane in the North Sea sends out a pigeon carrying an SOS message of help during the First World War

Telegraph lines crossing the Great Plains of America
Telegraph lines running alongside a railway track at a remote station on the Great Plains of America

When the War is Over, Maggie (1) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front writes a letter home to his love. (1 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

When the War is Over, Maggie (2) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front writes a letter home to his love, with a promise of marriage when he returns. (2 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

Soldier in a communication trench, WW1
Soldier in a communication trench, possibly in the Middle East, during the First World War. He is Albert Auerbach of the Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 1 September 1918

Victorian Scrap - Army Field Phone. late 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - T for Telegraphe (telegraph). 19th century

Susi - on the phone. 1950s

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