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Knot porter 1746Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746
Parcel mail porter 1846Parcel mail porter in London. Date: 1846
French regimental pigeonnier releasing a carrier pigeon. Pigeons were found useful in World War One to send messages and had not been entirely superseded by wireless telegraphy. Date: 1916
German despatch riders WWIIGerman despatch riders on Mercedes motorcycles in Aisne, France, during World War II Date: 1940
German dispatch riders pre-WWIIMotor dispatch School in 1935 in Magdeburg. The passing on of a dispatch message. Date: 9 July 1935
German troops pre-WWIIGerman dispatch riders prior to World War II
A call-box attached to the electric lighting standard at a cab-rank in Kensington, London, enable residents to call up a taxi at will. Date: 1910
Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901
Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer, shown in photograph with his apparatus, after receiving signals at Newfoundland
Transatlantic success, the forest of the telegraph poles at Poldhu Station, Cornwall, from which the first ever wireless message was sent across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Date: 12th December 1901
COLOUR SUPPLEMENTA politically incorrect postcard - Day all looks fo me cause I se de Cullud Supplement. Date: early 20th century
Brass postal, door handles and letter platesWilliam N. Froy and Sons, brass door knockers and letterboxes. Date: late 19th century
The spark that speaks across the Atlantic to Canada, Guglielmo Marconi transmitter Date: 1907
A young girl with blonde curls sits with her picture book on a stone bench in a woodland clearing. Date: 1913s
CAXTON AND HIS PRESSThe printer William Caxton checking a proof. Printed the first English illustrated book, the encyclopaedia The Myrrour of the worlde in 1481. Date: circa 1475
RECEIVING A LETTERA decorative lady slips a letter into her handbag Date: 1928
Miles M. 18 Mk. 2 G-AHKYMiles M.18 Mk.2 G-AHKY (msn 466, ex HM545), with race number 39, at Coventry - Baginton. The sole M.18 Mk.2, flew from Woodley in November 1939
Guglielmo Marconi reading a wireless telegraph message on tape from a across the Atlantic, on board the Italian Cruiser, Carlo Alberto. Date: 1902
In the folding room, busy workers checking, sorting and putting in order the pages, of the weekly Graphic, before it is sent out to the general public. Date: 1881
Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881
Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881
Men working in the batteries and dynamo machine room before going to print. Date: 1881
Engravers work through the night to produce the latest news for that week. Date: 1881
Finising and planing the electrotypes, before the printing can be done. Date: 1881
Interior of the studio where the engravings using tools and magnifying glasses to produce their work. Date: 1881
A rare King Edward VIII pillar box, Lilliput, Dorset, England. He reigned from January - December 1936, when he abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson. Date: 1936
Come rain or shine, or snow... this dedicated English postman delivers letters in the village. Date: 1960s
An English Victorian post box, reputed to have been used by Prime Minister William Gladstone, at Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Date: 19th century
An old English country post box, at Wheelers End, Buckinghamshire, England, dating from the reign of King Edward VII (1901 - 1910). Date: early 1900s
Seven identical letter boxes in a block of flats. Date: 1960s
The BBC transmission mast at Dodford, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s
Television transmission masts at Charwelton, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s
Ancient and Modern Communication. The Roman Road, Watling Street, flanked by the tall pylons of Rugby Radio Station, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s
The Eyes of the Nation, the BBC television aerials on the Museum Television Exchange, London. Date: 1950s
The exterior of Lichfield Public Library, Staffordshure, England. Date: late 1960s
Interior view of the then new modern library at Bebington, Merseyside, England. Date: early 1970s
A harvest time view of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, showing the stooks in the fields behind the building. Date: 1960s
La Bibliotheque du Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers is housed in the former refectory of the Abbaye St Martin des Champs, Paris Date: circa 1860
Two girls reading books, one sprawled in an armchair, the other kneels on the floor. Date: 1910
The exterior of a pigeon-loft in the rue Magenta, Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (2 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871
The interior of a pigeon-loft in Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (1 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871
The pigeon post : messages from outside Paris are brought in by the birds, magnified by a projector and transcribed Date: Jan - Feb 1871
A woman reading with her lapdog Date: 1910
Letter sorting office at the General Post Office - St Martin s-le-Grand, London. This was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910. Date: 1900
Interior of the reading room at the London Library, in St. Jamess Square. Date: 1900
Exterior of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, founder s-court, Lothbury, London, at the rear of the Bank of England. Date: 1848
A Lady excited by the ring of Loves Telephonecirca 1910s
Trainee Signalmen use semaphore to spell their regimentcirca 1910s
