Communication Collection (page 14)

French Pigeon Trainer, Illustrated War News, WW1
A French pigeon trainer with his avian pupils during the First World War. Pigeons, possessing a natural homing instinct, were used extensively as messengers during the conflict. Date: 1917

Satellite at Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall
The worlds first parabolic satellite communications antenna, nicknamed Arthur, at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Goonhilly Downs, near Helston, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Telegraph equipment, alphabet, and machinery, 19th century.. Telegraph equipment, alphabet, and machinery. 19th century communication technology. Copperplate engraving by W

WW2 Christmas card, Good Voyage, Churchill. The message inside the card reads: The Prime Minister, on his passage home in RMS Prince of Wales after the signing of the Atlantic Charter with President

WW2 Christmas card, Victorys Signal. The flaghoist signal used by Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), England expects that every man will do his duty

WW1 - Eastern Front - Soldiers Board train for the front Date: 1917

WW2 greetings card, ATS woman on phone
WW2 pop-up greetings card, ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) woman on the phone. Date: circa 1942

Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front
WW1 - Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front Date: 1918

WW1 - The German Ambassador to France delivers ultimatum
Baron Wilhelm von Schoen, German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I assuring interim for Foreign Affairs M

Telephone Cable Repair
The intricate work of repairing and connecting telephone land lines. London, 1998 Date: 1998

Silhouette heading, Financial Frills and Thrills, by H.L. Oakley, for The Bystander magazine. Showing two men in top hats, sitting in their respective armchairs, reading their newspapers. Date: 1920

Panama Canal Being Built. The Illustrated London News. (1888). Engraving

Inside of a post office-wagon (1854). Illustration published in the magazine La Ilustraci󮧮 Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872). North American painter and physicist, telegraphs inventor. Morse telegraph receiving station using punched tape Movilleron, early 20th c

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - whistles warning others - near a burrow in steppe - observes an intruder from a distance (Marmota bobak). steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - June

Snowy Owl - juvenile (a fledgling) - threatens a visitor by opening & clicking its beak - adults are watching from a distance. (Nyctea scandiaca). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Bottlenose Dolphin - Female (Mother) communicating with Newborn Baby / Calf immediately after birth, keeping the baby under water to control its breathing (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Bab y Calf whistling to its mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Russia - Tuvinian throat -singer. South Tuva

Bottlenose dolphin - underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male sings defending his breeding territory (Tetrastes bonasia). common in taiga forest near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve

Black-tailed Godwit - nervous about intruders on his breeding territory on a typical marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan (Limosa limosa)

Japanese / Red-Crowned / Manchurian CRANE - leaping (Grus japonensis)

HEDGEHOG - calling (Erinaceus europaeus). Ural Mountains, near Ekaterinburg, Russia

Bengal / Indian TIGER - close-up, snarling, in reeds. Camouflaged, facing camera (Panthera tigris). India

Common Rosefinch - singing (Carpodacus erythrinus). Nepal

CHEETAHS - scent marking (Acinonyx jubatus). Kenya, Africa

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

Crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser
Group photo, crew of HMS Astraea, British second-class cruiser, at Hong Kong, including telegraphist with machine. Date: circa 1908

Rustic Bunting - nestlings (Emberiza rustica)

Dutch boy scouts with signalling equipment, Holland
Two Dutch boy scouts with signalling equipment, Holland

Dutch cub scouts with semaphore flags, Holland
Two Dutch cub scouts with semaphore flags, Holland

Greek boy scouts doing semaphore signals
Three Greek boy scouts, one of them doing semaphore signals

The Communication Trench
British soldiers dash past a gap in the sandbag wall of a communication trench, keeping their heads down so as not to attract the attention of snipers. Date: 1915

Dear -------- at present we are staying at a farm
While being surrounded by died cattle and a derelict barn, two soldiers decided to rest and write a letter home

The value of pigeon post, WW2
The value of pigeon post as an accessory to wireless in war: testing a private fanciers carrier pigeons. Date: 1941

A Misinterpretation by C. Frampton, WW1 cartoon
A potentially disastrous case of Chinese Whispers in a front line trench. A message of Sedn reinforcements - we are about to advance, changes to, Send three and fourpence - we are going to a dance

French scout using walkie talkie
A French scout using a walkie talkie with an aerial

French boy scouts signalling with flags
Two French boy scouts on a high rock, signalling with flags (semaphore)

Chinese telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese workers at a switchboard in the telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA. The building was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of April 1906. Date: early 20th century

Paris, France - Eglise de Montmartre, with semaphore. Date: 1829

Christmas parcels for Tommy at the front
Army postmen dealing with hundreds of letters and parcels sent from home to active soldiers abroad, showing them that they are not forgotten during the festive season. Date: 1916

Indian troops in Mesopotamia during World War I
Indian sappers laying telephone cables in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: 1918

British messenger dog, WW1
Messenger dog, Nell. This dog worked with the British Army throughout the war, delivering messages between trenches and headquarters

British messenger dogs, WW1
Keeper Coull with three of his charges - messenger dogs used by the British Army during the First World War to carry messages between trenches, headquarters and stretches of land

WW1 messenger dogs - training them under rifle fire
Messenger dogs of the British Army undergoing training under rifle fire, to mimic conditions under which they would have to carry messages on the Western Front. Date: 1914-18

WW1 messenger dogs - training them to jump barbed wire
Messenger dogs destined for the British Army, being trained to jump and clear barbed wire entanglements during the First World War. Date: 1914-18

WW1 messenger dog
A British soldier securing a message to a messenger dogs collar on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-18

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