Wires Collection (page 5)

Indonesia - Jakarta - The Telephone Exchange. Jakarta was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa (3971527), Jayakarta (15271619), Batavia (16191942), and Djakarta (19421972)

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

Flea Circus Feeding Time
Feeding time at the flea circus: the performers, on Professor Tomlins arm, drink his blood with relish; the wires are the fleas harnesses Date: 1960s

Telegraph Wires
The advance of civilisation - a bear investigates a telegraph pole amid the mountains of Sweden. Date: 1907

Porth Mawr Gate, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
View of the town walls and gatehouse, the latter known as Porth Mawr (Porthmawr) Gate, on a snowy day in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Blondin tower, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of a Blondin tower at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. This is part of the high wire carriage system used to move the slate around

Workman pushing slate quarry tram, North Wales
A workman pushing a slate quarry tram with a large block of slate resting on top of it, somewhere in North Wales. These small trams can carry up to half a ton of raw slate

Blondin system, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of the Blondin high wire and truck at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Haggling
A Bosnian man haggling for a vest (waistcoat) in a Sarajevo Market, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Workmen put telegraph cables, Syria
Workmen installing telegraph cables in Aleppo, Syria

The Glasgow Electric Railway, Scotland. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Rue Bab-Azoun - Algiers, Algeria
A wonderful view of the Rue Bab-Azoun in Algiers, Algeria. Some of the advertisements n the side of the street and buildings are for Absinthe, Chocolat Menier, Au Bon Marche and Suchard

Industrial Exhibition - Stockholm, Sweden 1909
The Restaurant Bispen at the Konstindustriutstallningen Exhibition at Stockholm, Sweden. A precursor of Swedish Moden Design

Yokohama, Japan - Isesakicho-Dori Street. Note the complete lack of cars, even at this date

King William Street - Adelaide, Australia
A wonderful photographic postcard of a muffin man. The caption on the reverse reads thus:

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

A technician works on a wiring system
An electrical technician works on a wiring system, possibly for an early computer or at an exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Frost covered telephone wires
Telephone wires weighed down by frost and ice in Albert on the Western Front in France during World War I in February 1918

Galata Bridge - Constantinople
Galata Bridge and Ferryboat Station, Constantinople, Turkey

Tram Station and the Ferry Boat landing stage at Kadikoy
Tram Station and the Ferry Boat landing stage in Constantinople at Kadikoy on the Asian side of the Sea of Marmara. The capital city of the Roman Empire between 330-395 AD, in Byzantine times

Beyoglu - Istanbul, Turkey
A street in Beyoglu, Istanbul

Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia - looking East."

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

Double photograph of the test counterpoise table
Undated double photograph (ie, two copies of the same picture on one photograph) of the counterpoise table used in Rudi Schneider sances

Assembling the wiring for a complex machine
An engineer inserts a thin wire into a section of the assemblage for a Kimball machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Measuring the current of a large electronic device
A man measures the current running through a large electronic device, possibly an early computer or exchange. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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

Close to the Galata Bridge - Constantinople
Street scene close to the Galata Bridge, Constantinople. A man walks along with his two wives and child

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

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

Mirjan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq
The Mirjan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. On the road in the foreground a traffic official direct what little traffic there is! The sign to Keep on the Left is a direct indication of the British

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

England / Zennor
A glimpse of Zennor, a small village grouped around the church, situated on the north coast of Cornwall, between St. Ives and Lands End

Pictogram receiving apparatus
Three male operators in New York, at the receiving apparatus of a pictogram wire service, the first of its kind, to transmit images over telephone wires on May 19th, 1924, from Cleveland, Ohio

First pictogram
An examples of photographs transmitted over telephone wires from Cleveland, Ohio to New York, to produce the first pictogram on May 19th, 1924

Edisons Kinetophonogrph
EDISONs KINETO-PHONOGRAPH which linked photographic impressions with the phonograph in one combination: " Its possibilities are almost inexhaustible"

Maxim Project 1890
Hiram Maxims improved multiplane flying machine - less cumbersome than its predecessors, but still a monstrous concoction of wings, wires and huge propellers

Girl / Telegraph Songs
A little girl in a meadow listening to telegraph songs by a telegraph pole

Thomas Edison / Ilz Ft
THOMAS ALVA EDISON In his Workshop

Futuristic farming
An example of futuristic farming, the automated way. The farmer sits on a chair and operates the controls, while machinery does the harvesting

Futuristic teaching machine in a classroom
A futuristic teaching machine in a classroom. The teacher loads the books into a hopper and the knowledge percolates into the boys heads through wires leading to headphones

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