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Steljes type-printing telegraph recorderA photograph of Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder, able to automatically transmit and print messages through a phone line, while callers were still conversing
Entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada, USAEntrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, spa resort on Stateline Road, Crystal Bay, Nevada, USA, near Lake Tahoe. circa 1930
Daily Telegraph - printing room 1900Daily Telegraph, printing room in Fleet Street, London. Date: 1900
Brunels SS Great Eastern, Milford Haven, South WalesBrunels iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace
Daily Telegraph front pages, 1914, 1918 and 1919, WW1Daily Telegraph front pages for 3 August 1914 and 11 November 1918, marking the beginning and end of the First World War
Bank and shops, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USAWyoming Valley Trust Company and Second National Bank (left) and Jonas Longs Sons department store, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1907
Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1905
New Milton, Hampshire - Station Road. I can report that the Coal and Manure Merchants is now a Ladbrokes...! Date: circa 1908
Advert / Camp Coffee 1890SCamp Coffee is still the best
Orford Ness Lighthouse, SuffolkView of Orfordness (Orford Ness) Lighthouse, and the station of the submarine electric telegraph linking England and Holland
View down the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid WalesA view down the High Street from the Bear Hotel, in the town centre, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with snow on the ground. Recently installed telegraph wires can be seen above
Sir Francis RonaldsPortrait of English inventor, Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), inventor of the electric telegraph in 1816. He fitted his garden in Hammersmith with an electric telegraph but was refused when he
Liverpool / St NicholasLiverpool: St Nicholas Church and Telegraph Tower
Telegraph Office 1900Around a hundred telegraph clerks are employed in this one room alone at the Central Telegraph Office, London
Porthcurno Cable StationPorthcurno cable terminal in Cornwall, built by the Falmouth Gibraltar Malta Telegraph company
Telegraph Office 1859The offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company in Moorgate Street, London
Aerial view, Bunder Road, Karachi, PakistanAerial view, Bunder Road (now M. A. Jinnah Road), Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on a busy day. Date: circa 1950
Map of British Empire showing international cableMap of the British Empire (coloured red), showing the All-British international cable going round the world, enabling telegraphic communication. Date: circa 1902
Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North WalesView of Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The underwater Atlantic telegraph came ashore here. Date: early 20th century
Telegram Boys 1930SA line-up of smart young telegraph boys with immaculate uniforms and highly polished shoes
Telegram from QueenThe Queen sends a thank-you telegram to the earl of Bessborough, patron of the Chichester Festival. Date: 1962
Platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, EnglandDown platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1894
Quayside, Padstow, CornwallThe Quayside, Padstow, Cornwall - in quieter less-foody times... Date: circa 1910s
The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East AfricaThe Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam (" Haven of Peace" ), Tanzania, East Africa - showing the Anzani front and the Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s
Calle Comercio (Commercial Road), Concepcion, Chile. Date: 1904
Main Street, Colebrook, New Hampshire, USAMain Street (looking north), Colebrook, New Hampshire, USA. Date: circa 1925
Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi, USAView of a busy Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Date: circa 1904
Pug Peter -- rabbit riding a kangarooPug Peter -- The High Jump. A rabbit in riding costume on the back of a kangaroo, jumping over a telegraph wire. Date: 1905
Main Street - Yorktown, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1901
Cartoon, Henry Irving and F B ChattertonCartoon, Henry Irving (1838-1905), legendary actor-manager, and Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, with a bust of Shakespeare in the background -- Shakespearian Experimenters
Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with
HMS Monarch, British cable shipThe HMS Monarch, a British cable-laying ship. There were three cable ships of this name -- this is probably the third one, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1916. Date: 20th century
The Public Hall at the The Daily Telegraph newspaperThe hall of the Daily Telegraph newspaper looking very handsome with its red granite pillars. The view is taken looking towards Fleet Street. Date: 1914
High Street and Sullivan School, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland Date: circa 1904
Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricityA lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity. In the early eighteenth century, Gray demonstrated that charges of electricity could be conducted by some materials
Valentia, Cable TerminalValentia, western Ireland, at the time of the laying of the first cable
Broker and Ticker-TapeAn American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph
CLAUDE CHAPPE 1763-1805CLAUDE CHAPPE French Engineer. Invented a telegraph system employing visual semaphore signals. With his brother, he erected signals between Paris & Lille
Heliograph used by British army in AfricaHeliograph used in the British army in Africa, probably during the Boer War (1899-1902). The heliograph is a wireless telegraph that signals by flashes of sunlight (generally using Morse code)
Dog with Daily Telegraph newspaper on a greetings cardDog with a Daily Telegraph newspaper dated 5 September 1949 in its mouth, part of a greetings card. Date: 1949
Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee telegraphing messageQueen Victoria sending a message to the nation on her Diamond Jubilee. " From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them. V.R and I." 1897
LCC- MFB Blackheath fire stationBlackheath fire station, located at Brigade Street, Tranquil Vale, SE3 (very near the Mary Evans Picture Library), with the escape ladder stored at the side
The HMS Collingwood and seaplaneThe HMS Collingwood with a seaplane flying overhead. A St Vincent Class Dreadnought Battleship, launched in 1908, commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1922
Bennet Burleigh(c.1840-1914), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph
Jersey - PontacJersey, Pontac - a train leaves the small local Railway Station
Finishing of the manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph CableCompletion of the Atlantic Telegraph cable as the last inch of cable passes through the machinery of Messrs Glass and Elliott at Morden Whard, East Greenwich
Telegraph ParrotNo one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates
Chappes Telegraph - 1The optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother is erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, overlooking Paris
Hall of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, LothburyThe very grand looking hall of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, Lothbury
Traffic, trams, telegraph poles, Tokyo, Japan, c. 1890s Vintage late 19th centuryTraffic, trams, telegraph poles, Tokyo, Japan, c.1890s Vintage late 19th century photograph
Electric telegraph used in Crimean War, 1854Electric telegraph used in the Crimean War, 1854. The plough for laying the wire. The wire is deposited by a subsoil plough in the ground
Civil and Telegraph Office, Basra, Iraq, WW1Civil and Telegraph Office, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916
Telegraph company, St Vincent Island, Cape Verde IslandsEntrance to Western Telegraph Companys offices and cable station, St Vincent (Sao Vicente) Island, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic Ocean. 1922
Telegraph from Maharaja Bikaner to Major CrawfordTelegraph sent from Maharaja Bikaner to Major Crawford of the British 125th Rifles, stationed at Ahmednagar in the state of Maharashtra, India
Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Railway Station of the GTR (The Grand Trunk Railway). Date: circa 1910s
Wireless Station, North Head, Washington State, USAUS Government Wireless and Telegraph Station, North Head, Washington State, USA. Date: circa 1906
Royal Navy captain on bridge of warshipRoyal Navy captain on the bridge of a warship, leaning on the brass engine room telegraph set at Full Ahead. Date: circa 1950s
Delhi, India - Memorial outside the Old Telegraph OfficeDelhi, India - Memorial to the Indian Mutiny outside the Old Telegraph Office - unveiled by Lord Curzon on April 19, 1902. Date: 1911
Erewash Canal and Sawley Road, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It is unclear if the gentleman in the foreground is going to receive a stern reprimand from the copper approaching from the background....!
Post Office - Corner Wortley Road and Askin Street, OntarioPost Office - Corner Wortley Road and Askin Street, London South, Ontario, Canada Date: circa 1905
Liverpool Express and Weekly Courier Newspaper, Liverpool, Creed telegraph receivers
Star Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Victorian period
Telegraph Construction Company exhibit, Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 in London
Royal Naval Exhibition 1891 - The Telegraph Construction Company exhibit
Telegraph Boy
Telegraph Boy Victorian period
Hebrew Road, Burnley, Lancashire, early 1900s
Telegraph Station, Llandudno, Wales Date: circa 1910
Adelaide, Australia - The Railway Station Date: 1913
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, List of First Class PassengersWhite Star Line, RMS Titanic. Rare First Class passenger list that survived the sinking in the pocket of George Brereton. He was a professional gambler
Broadway, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: 1903
Selsdon Village, near Croydon, Surrey Date: 1910
Ocean Liners - Marconi collectablesOcean Liners - Guglielmo Marconi collectables including photograph and postcard of his Yacht Elettra and a Marconi commemorative medallion by S. Johnson. 2.5 inches. Date: 20th century
Arima Road, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Sannomiya Dori, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Onoyecho-dori, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Japan - Yoshidamachi, Yokohama. Date: circa 1910s
Otamachi-dori, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Snow scene - Yokohama Custom House, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Japan - The Kaminarimon ('Thunder Gate') - Asakusa, TokyoThe Kaminarimon ('Thunder Gate') - the outer of two large entrance gates that ultimately leads to the Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Japan - Akasaka-mitsuke, TokyoJapan - Akasaka-mitsuke (the approach to Akasaka Gate), Tokyo. Date: circa 1910s
Japan - Asasuka, Tokyo. Date: circa 1910s
Japan - Government Department of Communication, Tokyo Date: circa 1910s
