Operator Collection

Cotton weavers at their looms, Preston, Lancashire
Women operating cotton weaving looms at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire

Cotton weaving shed, Preston, Lancashire
A huge cotton weaving shed at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire, with people at work

Telephone Switchboard
New Scotland Yard switchboard

Telephone Exchange 1929
Londons new Automatic Telephone Exchange, showing an engineer testing the new revolutionary system, whereby subscribers were connected without an operator

Survivors of the Empress of Ireland. 1. Mr Edward Bamford, junior wireless operator on the Empress of Ireland. 2. The Rev J. Wallet, of the United Methodist Church, Westcliff-On-Sea. 3

Refuelling in a Mini
The modern female petrol pump operator, refuelling a car in her mini skirt

Completion of the new Earls Court station, London
Completion of the new Earls Court underground station, London. Top: an illuminated train indicator which shows trains in motion. Middle: the new flyover junction

A long line of telephone switchboards with female operators

London telephone exchange, WWII
Women telephone operators at a London telephone exchange with tin helmets, during World War II

Communications Room on an Atlantic liner
A communications room onboard an Atlantic liner, an example of the kind that would have been on board the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines

Signal Box 1940S
A signal box at Kingston showing a hand-operated frame

Spotlight operator, Maskelynes Theatre, London
Spotlight operator, Maskelynes Theatre, Langham Place, London. Date: circa 1930s

Vignette illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- An early and interesting type of signal. Date: 1935

Metropolitan Police operations room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police operations room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers and telephonists busy taking calls

Signal Room 1940S
A signal box at Surbiton for the Southern Railway

Duties of a large bombers crew by G. H. Davis
The duties of a large bombers crew of seven during the Second World War. Every man has a special task allotted to him. Showing a 27-ton heavy bomber over its target in Germany. Date: 1942

Advert for the recruitment of men for the RAF 1941
Fly with the RAF. Volunteer now! Heres the chance you ve been waiting for - to fly with the R.A.F be a pilot (age 18 - 30), Air Observer (18 - 32) or wireless operator/air gunner (18 - 32)

Cartoon - WWI - Haircut
A cartoon making light of the perils of life on the front line and the frequent need for surgical intervention to operate on soldiers

Police radio operators

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

United states Navy - Grumman F7F-2D Tigercat 80335
United States Navy - Grumman F7F-2D Tigercat 80335 of VU-3 at Miramar NAS. Built as an F7F-2N, the majority of the -2Ns, including 80335

John Fitch - American inventor of the steamboat
John Fitch (1743-1798) - the ill-fated inventor of the steamboat, who ended his own life in Bardstown in 1798, Kentucky, USA

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection photograh
RMS. TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION: A superb oversize press photograph taken on the deck of Carpathia showing Harold wearing the suit he wore to the American Inquiry with a Carpathia lifeboat

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection, Marconi envelope
RMS TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTOM COLLECTION: A red Marconi gram envelope on which Harold has written his name and address. Harold Thos Cottam, The Stone yard, Church Street, Southwell, England

RMS Titanic Harold Cottam Collection, photograph
RMS TITANIC THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION: An exceptional formal portrait of Harold in his Marconi uniform, signed in pencil on reverse HT Cottam. 5.5ins x 7.5ins

RMS Titanic, Harold Cottam Collection gold pocket watch)
RMS TITANIC. THE HAROLD COTTAM COLLECTION: Hallmarked 9ct Gold Waltham gentleman's hunter pocket watch engraved Presented to Mr. Harold T

WW2 - R. A. F. Wireless Operator Workshop
This photograph shows some British WW2 Royal Air Force trainees working at a wireless operator mechanics workshop. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Wireless Operator Training Machine
A photograph portraying a British WW2 Royal Air Force wireless operator sat inside the latest (of the time) training machine. Date: circa 1940s

RMS Titanic, table of English composer Archibald Joyce
An important piece of musical and Titanic history, a late 19th/early 20th century oak barley twist gateleg table on which the composer and ?English Waltz King? Archibald Joyce (1873)

Diagram of the Teletype, both receiving and transmitting. They were the first method of communication which could send messages within minutes

Operators of a Type Composing Machine
Two men operate a type composing machine. The machines collect and arrange the metal types used in early film photographic printing processes, a job previously done by human hand

Army Radio Operators, WW2 preparations Date: 1939

Memorial to Jack Phillips, Godalming, Surrey
Memorial to Jack George Phillips, wireless operator on RMS Titanic, Godalming, Surrey Date: 1928

Lockheed JetStar II N506T
Lockheed L-1329 JetStar II N506T (msn 5061), of Abakan-Avia, on lease to another corporate operator. (Later converted to JetStar-731 standard, with Garret TFE731 turbofan engines) Date: circa 1965

Newspaper press linotype operator
A linotype operator in a newspaper printing room Date: 1960s

A CTO teleprinter and its operator, noting down a message. Date: 1930s

Comic postcard, Drunken man with water spout Date: 20th century

Ada Blanche in The Telephone Girl at the Grand Theatre, Islington in 1896. Date: 1896

New Ideas for using X-Rays for Medical use WWI
Used in the British, French and Russian military hospitals the Kompact, apparatus, to find foreign bodies in wounded soldiers

First fully successful westbound North Atlantic flight
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, co-pilot Evert van Dijk, navigator John Patrick (Paddy) Saul and wireless operator John Stannage

Air conditioning for the House of Commons by G. H. Davis
To cool the heads and warm the feet of our legislators: air-conditioning for the new House of Commons. Diagram by G. H. Davis in The Illustrated London News showing how a single switchboard operator

Telephone operator, Mayfair Exchange, London
Telephone operator surrounded by wires at the Mayfair Exchange, London, Ocober 1932. 1932

Augustus Applegath and Edward Cowpers printing machine 1833
The invention of a steam powered rotary printing machine revolutionised the western world and opened large opportunities of mass distribution of books and news publications. 1833

A Wireless Station on the Western Front
A wireless station installed in an old loft on the Western Front. Packing cases and roughly made tables serve as furniture and two operators, wearing the wireless receivers

Advertisement for the Mount Railway, Madeira
Advertisement for the Mount Railway Company of Madeira, offering excursions for tourists, with return passage between steamer and pier, toboggan or return by railway

Local men with tourist car in Funchal, Madeira
Local men with a tourist car in Funchal, Madeira, designed to entertain visitors by sliding down the steep slopes of the town. Date: circa 1910

Machine for bending the barrel hoops 1875
This operator bending the barrel hoops. Date: 1875

Cutting screw threads with hand chaser 1875
Skilled operator cutting threads or screws on a lathe by hand. Date: 1875

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