Wireless Collection (page 5)

A Crystal Set-to by William Heath Robinson
A somewhat startling wireless development witnessed on Hampstead Heath during the broadcasting of an interesting dance programme

The Wreck of the Titanic - page from the Sphere
Page from the Sphere which reported in great detail on the sinking of the Titanic. Top part of the page shows the wireless telegraph message with the SOS and CQD signals

The Stock Exchange - Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Stock Exchange (La Bolsa) - Buenos Aires, Argentina Date: circa 1908

Flying Dress
A pilot dressed for a high- altitude flight. Equipped with parachute, harness, oxygen apparatus, telephone, wireless earphones, electrical system for heating clothing. Date: 1920s

A wireless operator
An illustration of an wireless operator sat at his desk receiving a message. Date: 4th May 1912

Columbia radio advertisement
Advertisement for Columbia radios, which, in every home after the sun has set...speaks, sings, plays. Date: 1930

Army Signal Service wireless station, Western Front, WW1
An Army Signal Service wireless station on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American Scouts listening to the radio
Five American Boy Scouts sit together listening to the radio, while one reads a magazine. An elderly lady sits in the corner of the room. 1942

Jack Binns, wireless-telegraph operator
Jack Binns, the wireless-telegraph operator on the RMS Republic that sank after colliding with the SS Florida on 23rd January 1909, near Nantucket, Massachusetts

C. Q. D. signals that meant safety on the Republic
C.Q.D. signals that meant safety to two thousand souls: the means by which the sinking liner Republic sent three hundred miles for immediate help

Listening to royal wedding ceremony broadcast, 1947
Crowds lining the processional route for the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947

George V Christmas radio broadcast
King George V (1865 - 1936), seated at the microphone in a room at Sandringham from where he broadcast a Christmas message to the British Empire. Date: 1934

Lucania Steamship
This Cunarder is the first ship to be equipped with Signor Marconis wireless system : for a while she holds the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing. Date: 1901

Harold Bride
Harold Sydney Bride(1890-1956), Titanic survivor. Bride was the second wireless operator on the Titanic, and was reported to have dealt with a man who tried to steal the first operators lifebelt

Radio Operator - Metropolitan Police. A list of a name form of the phonetic alphabet is propped up on his desk Date: circa 1940s

Police radio operator

Traffic Accident Group car
A late 1940s Traffic Accident Group car, which was manned by two police officers, with two solo motorcyclists accompanying it

Wireless telegraph transmitter with balloon-mounted aerial
A balloon carrying a telegraph antenna for a very early wirelss ( sans fils ) transmitter, France

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

Wireless Operator School, WWII
Wireless Operator School, during World War II. Practical telegraphy, receiving and sending on long wire circuits. Preparing for the War Emergency Certificate which means completing the course in

Picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E-series
Enjoying a picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E series 4 door Six Light

Mans Best Friend
A small puppy yawns while sitting in front of an old-fashioned wireless radio set

Admiral Sir Henry Jackson / Stamp
SIR HENRY BRADWARDINE JACKSON Admiral of the Fleet and pioneer of wireless telegraphy

The Christmas Party Up to Date: Fairy Tales by Broadcast b
Christmas parties this year will possess a new and fascinating attraction, both for young and old, in the shape of the latest wonder of wireless telephony

Batgers Wireless Crackers
A colour illustration from a Christmas cracker box

London Opinion 1935
A jolly looking woman wearing a party dress and paper hat opens the top of an old wireless set, ready to play some tunes perhaps

A Wireless Upset. A wireless enthusiast cries as his set doesn t work as his wife is using the aerial as a washing line. Please note

A stormy night at the listening in
Cartoon, A stormy night at the listening in. A building saved by the wireless aerial during an equinoctial gale. Please note

Wherefore art thou radio
Cartoon, Wherefore art thou radio. It is suggested that 2LO should devote a week to amatory music in the spring. A lovestruck couple listening to the wireless radio

Through the Mine-Field
The crew of a British destroyer gingerly negotiate their way through a German mine-field in the North Sea. The captain is reading a wireless message

The Contessa Marconi
MARIA CHRISTINA BEZZI SALI, the Contessa Marconi, wife of wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi and society beauty. Exclusive Bystander colour photograph

Listening to Wireless
A French mother listens to a wireless concert through her headphones Date: 1923

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

PHILCOs PEOPLEs SET
A Philco Peoples Set radio from the 1930s, as used in Queens Radio Ga-ga video!

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

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

Marconis wireless telephone
A wireless telephone transmitter and receiver from 1919 produced by the Marconi Company, capable of transmitting speech two thousand miles from Ireland to Nova Scotia

Grand National Results
A group gathered round a wireless to hear the results of the Grand National

Children Listen to Radio
Three children at the Babies Hotel, Clapham Common, London, listen intently to the radio at home, whilst Teddy seems distracted

1918 / Wireless Post
A wireless communication post on the Western Front

French Ships Paper
JOURNAL DE L ATLANTIQUE ships newspaper for the 3rd day of the Atlantic crossing by La Lorraine - news received daily by wireless telegraph

Portable Radio Foreseen
The Walkman is foreseen as a city gent is absorbed by his portable wireless; strange how potent cheap music can be

Marconi (Cig. Card 1)
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, and his wireless installation

Grand National on Radio
An excited audience listen to a broadcast of the Grand National (horse race) on the wireless

Wireless Mast
A man working on a radio mast in Berlin, Germany

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