Telephones Collection (page 2)

French military transmitting messages
Relays of French military soldiers continuously day and night operating the telephone exchange somewhere in the Somme district. Date: 1916

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

Firefighter using telephone point in street
Firefighter using a telephone point (marked Ambulance Call) in the street

Three Brownies in Baden Powell House, London
Three Brownies on telephones in Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London, with a portrait of Lord Baden Powell behind them. Date: circa 1960s

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

Transatlantic telephone system by G. H. Davis
A step-by-step diagram demonstrating the new transatlantic telephone system between Britain and the United States in 1927

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Men working at watchroom telephone switchboard
Firefighters working on the watchroom telephone switchboard at Southwark Fire Station. Date: circa 1909

LEO XIII (1810-1903). Pope (1878-1903). His Holiness the Pope sending a Jubilee phonographic message to the American people. Engraving

The telephone women (1904). Picture of Le Petit
" The telephone women (1904). Picture of " Le Petit Journal". Engraving."

Advert for G. P. O telephone 1933
Why not include it among your Christmas gifts ? Date: 1933

Bell Demonstrates Phone
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL successfully demonstrates his device at Boston, sending a message to North Conway, a distance of about 230 km. Date: 1877

London Fire Brigade Headquarters telephone switchboard

London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator
A London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator

LCC-LFB Brigade headquarters station watchroom
The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station. Although this had a telephone switchboard serving the adjacent headquarters of the Brigade

LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control room
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

NFS radio operator at Ealing HQ (34 D), WW2
NFS radio operator at the radio desk, Fire Force Area 34, Ealing HQ (34 D). On the board in front of her is the listing for the London Regional Area call signs

Home Office-NFS Fire Force mobile telecom unit, WW2
NFS firewoman control officer using the London Fire Brigade Portable Telephone Cabinet (Home Office)

A Russian general, shaking with fear, telephones the Czar(?) who is also being annoyed by the Czarina(?). Date 1904 or 1905

Talking on the telephone, postcard
" I don t know why ou botherd to send me a postcard, a phone call would have been much quicker!" - the declining post card industry pokes fun at itself in 1915. 1915

An example of an early telephone switchboard

Girls on the telephone
Fabulous illustration showing a number of teenage girls, all wearing 1950s style checked capri pants and boat neck sweaters while lounging around chatting on the phone. Date: 1950s

New York Telephone Company Exchange Date: 1896

Imperial Hotel
THE IMPERIAL HOTEL - Hotel De Luxe - Orchestra daily in Winter Gardens - Telephones on All Floora - Tape Machine - Snack Bar - Turkish Baths - Running Hot and Cold Water Date: 1920s

Female Office Worker
An office worker at her messy desk, surrounded by paperwork typewriters and telephones with wires which would make any Health and Safety departments hair stand on end! Date: 1960s

Gossip central! A telephone exchange in Columbus, Ohio, America

A computer technician with data tape
A computer technician stretches out a piece of data recording tape, from the ICT Atlas I computing system. A colleague speaks on the telephone in the background. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Two Men at Work
Two men working at a telephone switchboard desk in a factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Right Number by Pierrot
Illustration of an elegant flapper girl, dressed seemingly only in lingerie speaking on the telephone

Universal Exhibition, Paris
Members of the public testing out telephones and phonographs at the L Exposition Universelle in Paris

Man on Phone C1905
A man telephones his beloved and imagines her in the room with him, answering his call

BELL, 1892
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates the Chicago-New York long distance line

Telephones Captured 1917
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - Telephone Exchange captured by Revolutionary Committee troops

Bells Photophone / C19Th
Bells photophon being demonstrated

Advert. Bells Phone
Baxendales specialitites: Blacks patent Bell signalling speaking tube apparatus

Using Bells Telephone
Using Bells original telephone apparatus

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