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The King of GreecePhotograph of H. M. Constantine I, King of Greece. Brother-in-law to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, he insisted on Greek neutrality during World War I
Dinning RoomThe dining room: furniture in coromandel and walnut, giving a keynote of black and yellow. A black marble mantlepiece and lighting urns on pedestals
Making barbed wire entanglementsFrench soldiers at work on the Champagne front making barbed wire entanglements for French defences during World War I
Womans BathroomA womans bathroom; a feminine sheme of delicately engraved mirrors, with maple furniture and radiators under drying cupboards. The new British furniture, a complete home in the modern manner
First dispatch of mail-bags by pneumatic tubeFirst dispatch of mail-bags in 1863 through the pneumatic tube from the district office in Eversholt Street, London to Euston Station
Pictogram receiving apparatusThree 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
Women telephone operatorsSeries of engravings from the Graphic showing two callers during a telephone conversation and the operators at the exchange working to ensure the call is transferred
PhonographDiagram engraving showing components of a phonograph, along with a woman demonstrating how it is used. The phonograph worked by a small needle vibrating along a jagged groove
It is from himEngraving from a drawing by Marcella Walker showing a young woman opening an eagerly anticipated letter
Two millionth telephoneThe postmaster general, The Earl de la Warr (right), presents to the constable of the Tower (Lord Alanbrooke), the 2, 000, 000th telephone installed in London in 1954
Telephone exchange at KensingtonDrawing by Percy Spence of telephone girls answering calls at the new national telephone exchange at Kensington, London in 1902
War in the Air - RAF exhibitionTwo artists seen colouring a large aerial photograph to be seen in an exhibition of the Royal Air Force at the Grafton Galleries in London
Telephone-room at Southwark fire engine stationThe telephone-room at Southwark Chief Fire Engine Station showing an officer operating a switchboard, connecting the station with sub-stations in other London districts
The Motor in Mail ServiceA new delivery-car for the Post Office
Lemonade dutyPhotograph illustrating the reduction in the duty on lemonade following Stanley Baldwins first Budget in April 1923
Marconis wireless telephoneA wireless telephone transmitter and receiver from 1919 produced by the Marconi Company, capable of transmitting speech two thousand miles from Ireland to Nova Scotia
Switchboard operators wearing gas-masksPhotograph showing switchboard operators in Faraday Building, City, London, wearing special gas-masks with ear-phones and mouthpieces; a precautionary
Trans-atlantic telephone service openingThe official opening of the radio telephone service between London and New York. Mr Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, speaking to Sir Evelyn Murray
First pictogramAn examples of photographs transmitted over telephone wires from Cleveland, Ohio to New York, to produce the first pictogram on May 19th, 1924
Lorimer automatic exchangePhotograph of the Canadian Lorimer automatic telephone exchange, a system which dispensed with the need for telephone girls
Marine telephoneA telephone or marine alarum being used by a sailor. This worked on the principle of sending air through a series of valves and pistons to make various notes
Ramsay Macdonald and the 80, 000, 000, 000 letterPhotograph of J.Ramsay Macdonald, British Prime Minister, holding an envelope that needed 80, 000, 000, 000 marks postage from Berlin to London, following financial collapse in Germany
Players Bachelor cigarettesAdvertisement from 1930 for Players Bachelor cigarettes showing a stylised flapper girl walking a toy dog
Kensington telephone exchangeThe main wire distribution frame at Kensington telephone exchange shortly after it opened in 1902
First Anglo-French telephoneIllustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no
Watsons TelegraphView from Borough in London, of Watsons Telegraph, one of a series of stations connecting London with Deal on Britains south coast
18th century masque at ChristmasIllustration by Brunelleschi showing a stylised eighteenth century masque against a snowy landscape