Telecommunication Collection

Marconi radio apparatus
Marconi radio equipment on a ship. The equipment includes headphones and a Morse code key (lower centre)

Lovell Telescope
The brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope was for many years the largest in the world and dominates the Cheshire countryside for miles around. Date: 1960s

Early fire brigade street alarm
Early fire brigade alarm system. Historical artwork of a fireman testing a 19th-century combined telephonic and telegraphic street fire alarm system

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, aerial photograph

Portrait of telephone operator

The switchboard at the Newcastle Telephone Exchange. 24th Januaray 1931

Arecibo message and decoded key C016 / 6817
Arecibo message and decoded key. Diagram showing the binary transmission (left) known as the Arecibo message, with the message decoded and labelled at centre and right

Wireless officer sending a message by Morse Code from on board a ship, 1916
Wireless officer sending a message by morse code from on board a ship, 1916

Channel tunnel. Historical artwork of a tunnel beneath the English Channel through which Napoleons troops are moving to invade England

Telegraph receiver. Historical artwork of a Breguet telegraph receiver. Messages arrived at the receiver in wires as a series of long and short electric pulses

Konstantin Buteyko, Soviet doctor
Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (1923-2003), Soviet medical doctor and researcher. In the 1950s, Buteyko, a Ukrainian, developed a theory on the effects of deep breathing (hyperventilation)

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable, 1865

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865, 1865

Guglielmo Marconi, radio inventor
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor of the radio. Marconi patented his radio system in Britain, established the Marconis Wireless Telegraph Company in London in 1897

Zizkov TV tower at sunrise, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

The New Magic: Sending Pictures by Wireless and the Unescapable Telephone, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Great Eastern
September 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern

Telegraph printer, 1889 C013 / 8777
Telegraph printer. 19th-century artwork of a telegraph printer developed by Moore and Wright in the 1880s

Telephone bureau exchange, 1889
Telephone bureau exchange. 19th-century artwork of woman operating the exchange at a telephone bureau

Marconi radio apparatus
Marconi radio equipment. This is a Marconi type 31 crystal receiver for ships. Marconi patented his radio equipment in 1896, founding a company in 1897 to build the new equipment

Early telephone, historical artwork
Early telephone. Historical artwork of three men gathered around an early telephone. The man at right is talking into the speaking tube

Demonstration of the wireless telephone, June 1920. In the 1920s, broadcasting was still in its infancy, with radio transmitters and receivers owned only by amateur enthusiasts

The Aerial Man
1843: The aerial man passing over the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wireless communication
MODEL RELEASED. Wireless communication. Boy using a bluetooth hands-free headset for his mobile phone

Red telephone box in a remote place on the the Isle of Skye, Scotland

5g logo icon vector for graphic design, logo, website, social media, mobile app, UI

Santa Claus Hotline symbolized by a red retro phone Santa Claus Hotline symbolized by a red retro phone

Professor Samuel Morse, 1855-1860. Creator: Maull & Polyblank
Professor Samuel Morse, 1855-1860. Additional Info: Professor Samuel F. B

Early AA telephone box, (c1900s?). An AA man and his bicycle outside a roadside call-box

The post office central telephone exchange, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, England
KWE3062045 The post office central telephone exchange, St. Paul's Churchyard, London, England.; Private Collection; (add.info.: From Living London, published 1903)

Railway station, imperial post office and telegraph building in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, in 1880, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Wall Street bubbles:, Always the same. J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier who, as a bull, inflated bubbles with inflated values that a group of people greedily grabbed

Stagecoach The Cambridge Telegraph, from the White Horse Post Office, Fetterham, 1870, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Jean-Baptiste Carrier (born 16 March 1756 in Yolet near Aurillac died December 1794 in Paris) was a French revolutionary and member of the French National Convention, Historical

American engineer delivering dispatches, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Noah Webster, 1758 to 1843, American lexicographer, author and editor Nineteenth-century engraving by Kellogg after Morse, Historical

Noah Webster, 1758 to 1843, American lexicographer, author and editor Nineteenth-century engraving by Kellogg after Morse, Historical

Punishment of domestic discord in the Middle Ages, nasty woman is brought to court on a donkey under the mockery of the citizens, around 1885, Historical

External and average view of the telephone, first piece of a candlestick telephone, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally restored, historical

Man demonstrates the practical application of the phone, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Man demonstrates the practical application of the phone

Melk Abbey, officially Melk Abbey, Abbatia SS. App. Petri et Pauli apud Melk, is an abbey of the Benedictines in the province of Lower Austria in the town of Melk on the right bank of the Danube, c

Piazza Umberto I on Capri during a holiday, with a telegraph office in the centre, 1880, Italy, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a photograph by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe

A man, water carrier, water seller, c. 1865, Naples, Italy, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a photograph by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe

Stamp, Freimarkenserie Kaiseryacht SMS Hohenzollern was a series of stamps of the German Reichspost with the image of the 1892 built imperial yacht Hohenzollern

Water bearer, after a work of art by Johann Josef Schindler, c. 1810, Vienna, Austria, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Europe

30 Years War, bombardment of Prague by Carl Gustav of Palatinate-Zweibruecken, scene in foreground, Karl Gustav receives news of the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia through a messenger, 1648

Matthew Boulton (3 September 1728 - 18 August 1809) was an English engineer, medallist and entrepreneur of the early Industrial Revolution, Historic

Hyman Bachwald, 167 Allen Street, New York. Neurotic and epileptic. Mother worked in a factory in front of marriage and while Hyman was coming. Her mentality is questioned

Child labour, messenger boy working for the Mackay Telegraph Company

Self-portrait, William Armfield Hobday (1771) (17 February 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included the royal family and the Rothschilds, Historic

Self-portrait of the painter Benjamin Williams, c. 1920, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Africa, with traces of the old and new sea and land voyages of Europeans, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula, a world map of the earth from 1660, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified map, c. 1880, Ireland, depicted with peasant women, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Personified map, c. 1880, Denmark, depicted with a noblewoman, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Personified map, c. 1880, France, depicted with a Bourbon woman, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Personified map, c. 1880, England, depicted with a noblewoman, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified map, c. 1880, Holland and Belgium, depicted with a woman and child, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified Map, c. 1880, Wales, depicted with a King, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified map, c. 1880, Russia, depicted with a Pope and a Bear, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Personified map, c. 1880, Prussia, depicted with a Prussian soldier, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified map, c. 1880, Italy depicted with an Italian soldier, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified map, c. 1880, Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal, depicted with a dancer with a lion, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified Map, c. 1880, Scotland, depicted with a man wearing a kilt, c. 1900, Scotland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Personified Map, c. 1880, Germany, depicted as a dancing lady, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe

Self-portrait of Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853) (29 July 1890), a Dutch painter and draughtsman, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The Judgement of Jupiter, supreme deity of the Roman religion, by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1815, America, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (9 March 1750-21 June 1812), the so-called Leipzig Tischbein, was a German painter, Self-portrait, Historical

Charles Willson Peale (15 April 1741-22 February 1827) was an American portrait and landscape painter, Self-portrait, Painting by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), Historic

The Judgment of Jupiter, supreme deity of the Roman religion, painting by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), The Judgment of Jupiter, painting by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)

Corvette Captain Johannes Weickhmann, 1819, 1897, on the SMS Nymphe, a smooth deck corset of the Prussian Navy and the Imperial Navy, situation from the time of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

The pneumatic post in Vienna, Austria

The pneumatic post in Vienna, Austria

Telegraph field work in Grand Templan, illustrated war history, German, French war 1870-1871, Germany, France, Europe

Biblical story, St. Robert makes his dying profession of faith, Historical steel engraving from 1860

Thomas Gainsborough, 14 May 1727, 2 August 1788, was an English painter, Self-portrait 1759, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original artwork of the time, exact original date unknown

SMS Olga was a smooth deck corvette of the Imperial Navy, cruiser corvette, Germany, c. 1890, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th century pattern, Europe

SMS Irene was the type ship of a new class of cruiser corvettes or small cruisers of the Imperial Navy, equipped without sail rigging for the first time, Germany, c

SMS Oldenburg was the first ship built of steel in Germany, an armoured ship of the Imperial Navy designed from the outset without sail rigging and intended for coastal protection, Germany, c

Rammkreuzer, SMS Kaiserin und Koenigin Maria Theresia was an armoured cruiser of the k. u. k. Kriegsmarine, Austria, c

Armoured Austrian Casemate Ship Tegetthoff, Battleship of the Tegetthoff Class of the Imperial and Royal Navy. Kriegsmarine, Austria, c

Procession with a butter carrier in Steyr, Austria, 1870, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Procession with a butter-carrier in Steyr, 1880, Austria, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century print, Europe

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Revolutionizing Communication: From Marconi's Radio Apparatus to the Telegraph Receiver" Step back in time and explore the fascinating world of telecommunication, where innovation and technology have shaped human connection throughout history. Starting with Marconi's groundbreaking radio apparatus, which paved the way for wireless communication, we witness a remarkable transformation. The Lovell Telescope emerges as a symbol of scientific progress, enabling us to delve into the mysteries of space. In times of emergency, the early fire brigade street alarm acted as a lifeline for communities, alerting them to danger swiftly and efficiently. Meanwhile, Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station revolutionized global communication by connecting people across continents like never before. The Arecibo message and its decoded key C016 / 6817 represent humanity's attempt to reach out to extraterrestrial civilizations—a testament to our insatiable curiosity about what lies beyond our planet. Traveling through time brings us face-to-face with pivotal moments such as the switchboard at Newcastle Telephone Exchange on January 24th, 1931. Here, operators diligently connected calls that bridged distances and brought loved ones closer together. During wartime struggles in 1916, a wireless officer bravely sent messages via Morse Code from aboard a ship—an act that exemplified how telecommunication played an essential role in military operations. Fast forward to modern times—the Channel Tunnel stands tall as an engineering marvel that connects nations physically while fostering cultural exchange and economic growth. Meet "The Aerial Man, " who fearlessly climbed towering structures to ensure uninterrupted communication signals—his bravery kept society connected during challenging times. Witness the grandeur of Great Eastern—a colossal vessel instrumental in laying undersea cables that linked distant lands electronically—ushering in an era of instant long-distance communication unimaginable before its time. Finally, marvel at the Telegraph Printer from 1889 (C013 /8777), which transformed written words into electrical pulses, revolutionizing the speed and efficiency of information transmission.