Headphones Collection

Bonzo adds a fifth to the quartet
Bonzo, listening to music on the radio, adds a fifth to the quartet, and starts to howl. Date: 1923

RAF Harrier Jump Jets, No. 1 Squadron, set up in 1969. The jump jet is a vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft. Seen here are staff at work in a control tower

YWCA Poster, Back our girls over there, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Clarence F Underwood, Back our girls over there, United War Work Campaign, First World War. 1918

Klondyke Whist scorecard, black cat wearing wireless radio headphones

Army Radio Operators, WW2 preparations Date: 1939

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Gloria a los que derramaron su sangre por Espana y por su Caudillo Franco (Glory to Those Who Shed Their Blood for Spain and His Leader Franco)

Spainish Civil War (1936-1939). Ayudad a Madrid sufrido y heroico (Help the suffering and heroic Madrid). Poster by Cabana y Contreras. SPAIN. Barcelona

Monitoring radio stations for news to rush to editors Date: 1941

Inside the Control Tower, Croydon Airport Date: 1930s

BBC Late Low Definition Television Control Room. On the right is the mirror-drum projection scanner, on the left are the two checking receivers

Early radio crystal set, terrier puppy -- I don t seem to hear from you at Honiton. 1928

McMichael Radio used to receive weather reports
Demonstrating the McMichael Radio, used to receive weather reports at 23, 000 feet on the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition. 1933

Advert, McMichael Radio
Advertisement for McMichael Radio, used on the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition. 1933

A wireless ball: dancers with headphones at a silent dance
The 1928 equivalent of a silent disco: dancers with headphones at a silent dance on leap year night. Date: 1928

ADVERT / CHEWING GUM 1925
Black Jack chewing gum in licorice flavour Date: 1925

Bottlenose Dolphin - listening to music with headphones - underwater - with air bubbles (Tursiops truncatus). Digitally manipulated image

A Turkey Glide by William Heath Robinson
The latest Christmas family gliders fitted with listening in equipment for hearing Dutch concerts during dinner. One particularly large family flies through the air while using hot water bottles or

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Helicopter search and rescue using thermal camera
Helicopter search and rescue, early use of a thermal infrared camera to find missing people. A woman sits to the left of the pilot, with the camera in front of her. Date: 1972

Girl looking at The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede 1670, by
Girl looking at a painting. The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede 1670, by Jacob Ruysdael (1628-1682). Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Mike the Announcers Wife. circa 1930s

Police officers at work in communications room
Police officers, male and female, at work in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa early 1970s

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo with golf clubs and headphones
George Ernest Studdy, two colour sketches of Bonzo, one with a bag of golf clubs and balancing a golfball on his nose, the other wearing headphones as mascot for the Crosley Radio Corporation

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

The Old Order Changeth
" Flight-Sergeant, in future when we go up, just give the order Let Go, instead of Let go the guys, " Date: 1918

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

Woman operating field telephone van, WW2
Woman operating a field telephone van during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

LCC-London Fire Brigade training in use of telephone
LCC-London Fire Brigade training recruits in taking messages over the telephone, at Lambeth HQ

Radio equipment at Baden Powell House, London
Demonstration of radio equipment at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Wireless enthusiasts who got engaged to be married
Couple sitting back to back sharing a pair of headphones while listening to the wireless. 1926

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

Men in basket of observation balloon, WW1
Two men with telephones and maps in the basket of an RFA observation balloon on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Two airmen standing in front of plane
Two airmen in goggles standing in front of a large biplane

Man and woman with radio equipment
A man and a woman sit with radio equipment, including earphones, clearly enjoying what they are hearing

Amateur wireless hobbyists
Two amateur wireless hobbyists listening on their headphones

Evelyn Laye listening to music in 1923
Evelyn Laye (1900 - 1996), English theatre and musical film actress, listening to music with headphones. Here in a title role in " Merry Widow" at Daly s. Date: 1923

Telephone Operator - Wakeman, Ohio, USA
Telephone Operator at Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio, United States - a little village along the Vermilion River. Date: 1911

LCC-LFB Control Room at Lambeth HQ SE1
Brigade control was located in the basement of the Headquarters building. A view of the card index rotary drums that recorded the address of every London thoroughfare

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