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Egypt - Suez - General view including Mosque
Egypt - Suez - General view including the Kafr-Zar Mosque Date: 1910

Roadside Picnic with Lanchester
Five chaps have a roadside picnic alongside their parked Lanchester (10 HP) car

Raising telegraph poles
A group of workers erect a telegraph pole with the help of a winch on the back of a truck

Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia - looking East."

Lower Southern Hospital, Gore Farm, Dartford, Kent
The Lower Southern Hospital at Gore Farm, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War use as a military hospital. The hospital was set up in 1883 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for smallpox

Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
A view of Hall Barn in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, at the time of the photograph the home of Lord Burnham -- Sir Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baronet, owner of the Daily Telegraph

Allan Gardens and Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Canada

Stopping for a chat at the roadside - Somerset
A man hops off his bicycle to have a chat to a passing motorist in a fine open-top car close to Taunton, Somerset. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Victoria Station, Pimlico, London - Interior view with train departure boards and telegraph office

Martinique - The Covered Market at Fort-de-France
Fort-de-france, Martinique, The Old Covered Market

Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - Market scene
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - general street/market scene with a small covered market (right) with a mosque in the background and general sellers of a variety of wares in the open square

Uzice, Croatia
Uzice, Serbia. The town is located on the banks of Detinja River

The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Temporary station at Dover: the steamers prepare to start
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. After arriving in France however

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - fixing telegraph wires
Fixing telegraph wires on the road to the Prah river. The Ashanti warriors had crossed this river to reach the coast where they tried to maintain a stronghold

Daily Telegraph Offices, Fleet Street, 1882
Engraving showing the Fleet Street exterior of the Daily Telegraph newspaper offices, London, 1882

The Main Base, Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1913
Photograph of the main base of Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, Adelie Land, Antarctica, 1913. The stores and wireless telegraph poles can be seen in the foreground

The Daily Telegraph printing machine
The Daily Telegraph ten-feeder printing machine in operation

The newly built offices of the Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street
The new offices of the Daily Telegraph in Fleet Street with illustrations of the printing presses and the opening night soiree in the Large Hall

Buoys and Grapnels used in recovering the Atlantic Telegraph
Engraving showing the buoys and grapnels that were used to recover an Atlantic Telegraph Cable, September 1866. The telegraph cable, which was laid in 1865 by the Great Eastern

Orfordness Lighthouse and Telegraph Station, 1853
Engraving of Orfordness lighthouse and Submarine electric telegraph station, Suffolk, June 1853. At the end of May 1853 a telegraph cable 119 miles had been laid between Orfordness and Scheveningen

Professor Arthur Korn, with his telegraph photographic machi
Professor Arthur Korn with his tele-photographic apparatus. Korn developed a method of transmitting photographs through telephone wires. In 1907 he produced the first facsimile telegraph

Levy-Lawson Editor Vf
EDWARD LEVY-LAWSON 1st Baron Burnham Editor of The Daily Telegraph

Balancing Bear / Rountree
A small bear walks precariously along a telegraph wire while balancing a red ball on his nose, thinking, I Wonder What It Is?

Electric Telegraph in US
The electric telegraph in use during the American Civil War: General Ulyssess Grant and his operator

Director of Telegraph
The Director of the Telegraph is distinguished from his comrades by not having a single touch of red in his uniform ! Apart from that, he looks smart enough

Grey & Lace Dress 1899
Pale grey dress with an irregular shaped tunic, machine over-stitching, gauged yoke & white lace under-skirt. Her parasol is also trimmed with a lace flounce

USS Arctic, 1856
Engraving of the United States Navy Steamship Arctic, whilst involved in sounding the Atlantic. This project was undertaken in preparation for the laying of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable

The Spool and Steam Engine used for Sounding the Atlantic, U
Engraving of the cable spool and steam engine on United States Navy Steamship Arctic, whilst sounding the Atlantic. The steam engine was used for recovering the line from the great depths of

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

H. M.s Agamemnon
Launch of H.M.S Agamemnon, the first steam ship to attempt to lay the Trans-atlantic telegraph cable

Game of chess by telegraph
A game of chess played between London and Portsmouth, through the electric telegraph of the South Western Railway on April 10th, 1845. Suggested by Mr

Landing cable at Porthcurnew Bay
Engraving of the landing of cable for the Falmouth, Gibralter and Mediterranean Telegraph at Porthcurnew Bay, Cornwall

The Central Post Office Telegraph Establishment
Series of sketches showing different departments of the Central Telegraph Establishment at the General Post Office in London

Instrument gallery of the Central Telegraph Office
Telegraphists at work in the instrument gallery of the Central Telegraph Office in Newgate Street, London, 1874

Autographic telegraphy
D Arlincourts autographic telegraph, able to transmit a copy of handwriting by electric currents. Several versions based on a similar principle were in circulation during the mid-19th century

Metropolitan Gallery in Telegraph Street
Women at work in the Metropolitan Gallery in Telegraph Street receiving telegraphs for the London area

Testing the recovered Atlantic telegraph cable
Group of engineers testing the recovered 1865 Atlantic cable. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

Telegraph apparatus in the Eiffel Tower
Wireless telegraph apparatus in the Eiffel Tower, Paris for transmitting the time to vessels up to 3000 miles away at sea

Manufacture of the Atlantic telegraph cable
Machines covering the Atlantic cable wire with gutta percha at the Gutta Percha Companys works in Wharf Road, London. Before the advent of man-made materials, gutta percha

Opening of the Channel Islands Telegraph
Crowd scene showing people in Jersey celebrating the opening of the Channel Islands Telegraph in 1858

Field telegraph
A field telegraph in use by two soldiers during army manoeuvres in the New Forest, Hampshire in 1895

Shipping the Atlantic Telegraph onboard the Great Eastern
Engraving showing Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam-ship Great Eastern receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs

Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder
A photograph of Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder, able to automatically transmit and print messages through a phone line, while callers were still conversing

Marconis new movable radio-telegraphic station, designed by Marquis Solari, Signor Marconis secretary. The station was used for traction or for generating electricity for wireless telegraphy

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

General Election: Scenes at a London club
Series of sketches from the front cover of the ILN, July 17th, 1886 illustrating activity at a London club on the day of a General Election in 1886

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