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Telecommunications Collection

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Advert promoting the Post Office Telephone Service. Date: 1932

Advert promoting the Post Office Telephone Service. Date: 1932

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: The top of the British Telecom BT Tower, London

The top of the British Telecom BT Tower, London. Date: circa early 1980s

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Olivetti Advert 1928

Olivetti Advert 1928
An Olivetti typewriter is held aloft by Hermes, messenger of the gods and patron of the telecommunications industry

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Bristol 170 Freighter Mk. 31 G-AGPV

Bristol 170 Freighter Mk. 31 G-AGPV
Bristol 170 Freighter Mk.31 G-AGPV (msn 12370, ex VR380), the prototype Freighter / Wayfarer, after disposal by the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Defford

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: GPO engineer at work, London

GPO engineer at work, London
GPO engineer working on underground telephone cables on a street in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: GPO / British Telecom Tower under construction

GPO / British Telecom Tower under construction
Londons GPO/British Telecom Tower under construction, juxtaposed against a Victorian building. Date: circa 1963

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Telephone Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Telephone Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Date: 1935

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Patriotic poster, Buy British - Broadcast this message

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Broadcast this message
Buy British - Broadcast this message to your friends. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Telegram Messenger Boy

Telegram Messenger Boy - People You See. From Teddy Bear (24 October 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Central telephone exchange 1903

Central telephone exchange 1903
The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Exterior of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, founder s-court, Lothbury, London

Exterior of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, founder s-court, Lothbury, London, at the rear of the Bank of England. Date: 1848

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: The Tower Subway

The Tower Subway
The second oldest tunnel running under the Thames, running between Tower Hill on the north side of the river, through to Vine Lane on the south side of the river (just to the west of Tower Bridge)

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Avro Tudor 7 G-AGRX

Avro Tudor 7 G-AGRX at the 1947 Radlett SBAC show. The first production Tudor 2, modified on the production line to Tudor 7 standard, powered by Bristol Hercules 120 radial engines

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Post and Telegraph Office, Reykjavik, Iceland - note the superb roof-mounted box aerial Date

Post and Telegraph Office, Reykjavik, Iceland - note the superb roof-mounted box aerial Date: circa 1909

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Two-valve radio-receiver. 1917

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

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-193

Phonoplex telegraph invented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). Engraving

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Radio-receiver with superheterodyne circuit, 4 valves, only

Radio-receiver with superheterodyne circuit, 4 valves, only AM reception, model G175. 1952. Gelosa, Italy. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Automatic central battery telephone. Model 27. Siemens. 1927

Automatic central battery telephone. Model 27. Siemens. 1927. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Carborundum radio-receiver. 1917

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

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Telephone service in Madrid. Central office

Telephone service in Madrid. Central office. Colored engraving, 1886

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Telephone central office. Switching room and telephonists. M

Telephone central office. Switching room and telephonists. Milan. Italy. Engraving. Coloured

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872). North American painter

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

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: New phone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan

New phone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan
The opening of the new telephone line at the number 27 Post Office, Japan. Inset portraits of two postal officials. Date: 1911

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Cat answering the telephone

Cat answering the telephone

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Grays Telephone System

Grays Telephone System
A demonstration of the telephone system of Elisha Gray in New York. Gray filed a patent for the telephone on the same day as Bell, but his initial delay proved costly! Date: 1878

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Guglielmo Marconi - Italian Radio Pioneer

Guglielmo Marconi - Italian Radio Pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi (18741937) - Italian inventor, known as the " Father of long distance radio transmission" and for his development of Marconis law and a radio telegraph system. 1926

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: The Signal Corps trains men for telegraph, telephone, radio

The Signal Corps trains men for telegraph, telephone, radio. There is in your locality a US Army recruiting office. US Army Signal Corps recruiting poster showing a map of the world with lines of

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Telegraph Poles Eyesore

Telegraph Poles Eyesore
Even motoring on a quiet lane, the beauty of the countryside is spoilt by ugly telegraph poles; a scene in Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Radar Tower

Radar Tower
The Radar Tower and Mast at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Date: 1960s

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Gpo Communications Tower

Gpo Communications Tower
The G.P, O. Communications Tower, near Charwelton, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Eastern Extension Telegraph Company - Shanghai, China

Eastern Extension Telegraph Company - Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China - The Building of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Date: circa 1910

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: General view of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

General view of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
A general view of the central business district of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, with a boat travelling across the harbour

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Poster advertising the telephone

Poster advertising the telephone
Poster designed by E McKnight Kauffer, encouraging people to use the telephone to make contact with the world

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: A Worker at an Exchange

A Worker at an Exchange
A worker adjusts the wiring connections at a telecommunications exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: The Monarch 120 Call Connect System

The Monarch 120 Call Connect System
A secretary or receptionist uses a new electronic post office telecommunications device/switchboard unit. A promotional photograph for the Monarch 120 Call Connect System

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: The Reis Telephone system

The Reis Telephone system
The Reis Telephone System (developed by Johann Philipp Reis, 1834 - 1874), demonstrated to the Physical Society in Frankfurt in 1861. Reis speaker worked by magnetostriction

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Louis Adolphe Cochery / Gill

Louis Adolphe Cochery / Gill
Louis Adolphe Cochery (1819-1900) French politician, journalist and founder the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications

Background imageTelecommunications Collection: Russia Telephone Exhange

Russia Telephone Exhange
Workers at a telephone exchange in Russia


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