Telecommunications Collection (page 2)

Friedrich Siemens
3586180 Friedrich Siemens; (add.info.: Portrait of Friedrich Siemens (1826-1904) a German entrepreneur and brother of Werner von Siemens. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Illustration showing the submarine telegraph cable between England and Belgium being laid out from the hold of
5311170 Illustration showing the submarine telegraph cable between England and Belgium being laid out from the hold of the 'William Hutt'; 1853; (add.info.: Date)

An engraving depicting The Great Eastern laying the Atlantic Telegraph, 19th century
5310733 An engraving depicting The Great Eastern laying the Atlantic Telegraph, 19th century; (add.info.: Date: 1890); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Multi-destination international telephone call, 1890
3479397 Multi-destination international telephone call, 1890; (add.info.: Cartoon showing a stressful simulation of a multi-destination international telephone call to Fiji, Beijing, San Francisco)

Illustration showing Cooke and Wheatstone's double-needle telegraph. The Cooke
5311520 Illustration showing Cooke and Wheatstone's double-needle telegraph. The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English

Illustration showing Cooke and Wheatstone's single-needle telegraph. The Cooke
5311519 Illustration showing Cooke and Wheatstone's single-needle telegraph. The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English

Lord Kelvin receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use
5311729 Lord Kelvin receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use; (add.info.: Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) receiving Transatlantic telegraph, apparatus in use at Brest, France 1877

A Bell telephone
5309982 A Bell telephone; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a Bell telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer

Work manager at a factory communicating with a foreman
5615884 Work manager at a factory communicating with a foreman; (add.info.: Work manager at a factory communicating with a foreman, via a wall-mounted Phelp's Duplex internal telephone.; 1879)

American hotel bedroom with telephone
5615882 American hotel bedroom with telephone; (add.info.: American hotel bedroom with telephone 1892. 01/01/1892); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Interior of Telegraph louse, 1858
3478755 Interior of Telegraph louse, 1858; (add.info.: Interior of Telegraph louse, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Chicago Police report to headquarters using a street telephone to report an accident
5615880 Chicago Police report to headquarters using a street telephone to report an accident; (add.info.: Chicago Police report to headquarters using a street telephone to report an accident 1882)

Cartoon depicting a young couple trying to use the telephone in the pursuit of love, 19th century
5308998 Cartoon depicting a young couple trying to use the telephone in the pursuit of love, 19th century; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting a young couple trying to use the telephone in the pursuit of)

The first Bell telephone
5309983 The first Bell telephone; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the first Bell telephone , invented by Alexander Graham Bell)

Illustration showing a transmitting key for a Morse Telegraph. 1906. The electrical telegraph
5311577 Illustration showing a transmitting key for a Morse Telegraph. 1906. The electrical telegraph, or more commonly just telegraph, superseded optical semaphore telegraph systems

Telegraph room, Electric and International Telegraph Company, 1859
3478844 Telegraph room, Electric and International Telegraph Company, 1859; (add.info.: The telegraph room, Electric and International Telegraph Company, Bell Alley, London)

Work foreman at a factory communicating with management
5615883 Work foreman at a factory communicating with management; (add.info.: Work foreman at a factory communicating with management via a wall-mounted Phelp's Duplex internal telephone.; 1879)

French army portable field telephone
5615885 French army portable field telephone; (add.info.: French army portable field telephone 1890. 01/01/1890); Universal History Archive/UIG.

A Bell telephone
5309984 A Bell telephone; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a Bell telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer

Werner von Siemens
3586179 Werner von Siemens; (add.info.: Portrait of Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) a German inventor, industrialist and brother of Friedrich Siemens

Werner von Siemens
3586178 Werner von Siemens; (add.info.: Portrait of Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) a German inventor, industrialist and brother of Friedrich Siemens

The original television apparatus used by Baird. His first demonstration of true television was on 27th January 1926
1578791 The original television apparatus used by Baird. His first demonstration of true television was on 27th January 1926.; (add.info.: The original television apparatus used by John Logie Baird)

Cartoon depicting a man using a telephone, 19th century
5308593 Cartoon depicting a man using a telephone, 19th century; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting a man using a telephone. Dated 19th century 01/02/1880); Universal History Archive/UIG.

First attempt to lay a transatlantic undersea telegraph link, 1857
3478752 First attempt to lay a transatlantic undersea telegraph link, 1857; (add.info.: Taking the cable on board HMS Agamemnon in July 1857)

Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Two soldiers, amputee veterans of World War I, leaning to use a telegraph at a vocational school for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital

The Jackal tender and boats going to meet the American mail steamer at Roche's Point..., 1864. Creator: Smyth
The Jackal tender and boats going to meet the American mail steamer at Roche's Point, near Queenstown [in Ireland], 1864

Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917.

Wireless, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Wireless, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in telegraph training at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York during World War I.

University of Washington, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
University of Washington, 1917. A trooper from the University of Washington militia using a portable field-telephone in a suitcase.

German field telephone, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
German field telephone, 1914. German soldier talking on telephone which is attached to a tree, next to a brick building, during World War I.

Telegraph messenger, Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph messenger, Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. A woman telegraph messenger on a bicycle in Berlin, Germany during World War I.

House of Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, 1933 Oct. Creator: Arnold Genthe
House of Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, 1933 Oct. 17. Address: Sefton Manor, Mill Neck, Long Island, New York. House designed in 1922 by Clinton and Russell for cosmetics executive Lillian Sefton Dodge

Celebration at Jersey of the Opening of the Channel Islands Telegraph, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Celebration at Jersey of the Opening of the Channel Islands Telegraph, 1858. View of...the scene of popular excitement on the occasion in the streets of St. Helier

Celebration of the Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at New York - the Illumination... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Celebration of the Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at New York - the Illumination of the City Hall, 1858. Firework display, with inscription: All Honour to Cyrus [?] Field'

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia: Catamaran for Under-running the Shore-end... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia: Catamaran for Under-running the Shore-end of the Cable, 1858. View of Valentia

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, from the North, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, from the North, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic Telegraph

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, the Landing-Place of the Atlantic Cable, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, the Landing-Place of the Atlantic Cable, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic Telegraph

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - the "Agamemnon" in a Storm, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - the "Agamemnon" in a Storm, 1858. Ship struggling in...the great storm on the 20th of June...the Agamemnon rolled so heavily

The Atlantic Telegraph Paying-Out Machine, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Paying-Out Machine, 1858. In the Engraving, which is taken from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank, the paying-out machine is shown in perspective nearest to the observer

The North Atlantic Telegraph - Cape Farewell, South Greenland, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The North Atlantic Telegraph - Cape Farewell, South Greenland, 1860. Cape Farewell is situated at the south-western end of Greenland

Proposed route of the North Atlantic Telegraph, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Proposed route of the North Atlantic Telegraph, 1860. The concession for the Danish territories on the proposed route was obtained by Colonel Shaffner in 1854

Signor Marconi, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Signor Marconi, c1900. Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system

The North Atlantic Telegraph - Julianshaab, Capital of South Greenland, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The North Atlantic Telegraph - Julianshaab, Capital of South Greenland, 1860. Julianshaab is the capital of the district embracing the southern end of Greenland

The North Atlantic Telegraph - The Telegraph Expedition Company camping in Labrador, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The North Atlantic Telegraph - The Telegraph Expedition Company camping in Labrador, [Canada] 1860. The projected telegraph is to be laid into Hamilton's Inlet, latitude 54 deg. 30 min. N

The North Atlantic Telegraph - The Expedition arriving at Kaksimiut, Greenland, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The North Atlantic Telegraph - The Expedition arriving at Kaksimiut, Greenland, 1860. Kaksimiut is situated on the west coast of Greenland, about forty miles north of Julianshaab

Le telephone a l'arriere du front; apres un bombardement, les sapeurs telephonistes... 1918. Creator: Unknown
Le telephone a l'arriere du front; apres un bombardement, les sapeurs telephonistes, munis de leur masque, posent une ligne dans un fond ou persist l, action des gaz, 1918

The Atlantic Cable, ready for shipment, Morden Wharf, East Greenwich, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Cable, ready for shipment, Morden Wharf, East Greenwich, [London], 1857. The core is conveyed to [Glass, Elliott, and Co.'s works at] East Greenwich upon large reels

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