Images Dated 6th April 2004 (page 3)

The King of Greece
Photograph 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 Room
The 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 entanglements
French soldiers at work on the Champagne front making barbed wire entanglements for French defences during World War I

Womans Bathroom
A 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 tube
First dispatch of mail-bags in 1863 through the pneumatic tube from the district office in Eversholt Street, London to Euston Station

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

Women telephone operators
Series 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

Phonograph
Diagram 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 him
Engraving from a drawing by Marcella Walker showing a young woman opening an eagerly anticipated letter

Two millionth telephone
The 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 Kensington
Drawing by Percy Spence of telephone girls answering calls at the new national telephone exchange at Kensington, London in 1902

War in the Air - RAF exhibition
Two 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 station
The 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 Service
A new delivery-car for the Post Office

Lemonade duty
Photograph illustrating the reduction in the duty on lemonade following Stanley Baldwins first Budget in April 1923

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

Switchboard operators wearing gas-masks
Photograph showing switchboard operators in Faraday Building, City, London, wearing special gas-masks with ear-phones and mouthpieces; a precautionary

Trans-atlantic telephone service opening
The 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 pictogram
An examples of photographs transmitted over telephone wires from Cleveland, Ohio to New York, to produce the first pictogram on May 19th, 1924

Lorimer automatic exchange
Photograph of the Canadian Lorimer automatic telephone exchange, a system which dispensed with the need for telephone girls

Marine telephone
A 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 letter
Photograph 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 cigarettes
Advertisement from 1930 for Players Bachelor cigarettes showing a stylised flapper girl walking a toy dog

Kensington telephone exchange
The main wire distribution frame at Kensington telephone exchange shortly after it opened in 1902

First Anglo-French telephone
Illustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no

Watsons Telegraph
View 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 Christmas
Illustration by Brunelleschi showing a stylised eighteenth century masque against a snowy landscape

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