Telecommunications Collection (page 9)

Potentialities of Television, cartoon from Punch Magazine (engraving)
583466 Potentialities of Television, cartoon from Punch Magazine (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Potentialities of Television)

Time ball at the Electric Telegraph Companys station, West Strand (engraving)
585698 Time ball at the Electric Telegraph Companys station, West Strand (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Early Satellites and Rockets, 1948 (colour litho)
2630069 Early Satellites and Rockets, 1948 (colour litho) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; Photo eGraphicaArtis; American, out of copyright

A David Edward Hughes telegraphic printing machine, from Les Merveilles de la Science
2619097 A David Edward Hughes telegraphic printing machine, from Les Merveilles de la Science, published c.1870 (engraving) by French School

Christmas greetings card from the General Post Office, London, 1891-1892 (colour litho)
6030952 Christmas greetings card from the General Post Office, London, 1891-1892 (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Christmas greetings card from the General Post Office, London, 1885 (colour litho)
6030948 Christmas greetings card from the General Post Office, London, 1885 (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

British Post Office workers laying new telephone cables after a German air raid during the Blitz, London, World War II
6015296 British Post Office workers laying new telephone cables after a German air raid during the Blitz, London, World War II, 1940-1945 (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Laying underground telephone cables in London, 1900 (b / w photo)
6015112 Laying underground telephone cables in London, 1900 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Laying underground telephone cables in London, 1900)

Exhibition of electricity (colour litho)
5229060 Exhibition of electricity (colour litho) by Draner, Renard Jules (1833-1926); Private Collection; (add.info.: Exhibition of electricity)

Edouard Branly, French physicist and inventor (chromolitho)
972277 Edouard Branly, French physicist and inventor (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Edouard Branly (1844-1940)

Military telegraphy (chromolitho)
974505 Military telegraphy (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Military telegraphy)

Baudots printing telegraph (chromolitho)
974503 Baudots printing telegraph (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Baudots printing telegraph)

Chappes telegraph, 1793 (chromolitho)
974512 Chappes telegraph, 1793 (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Chappes telegraph, 1793)

Telephone exchange (chromolitho)
974507 Telephone exchange (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Telephone exchange)

The Queen Telegraphing her Message to her People throughout the Empire (litho)
1037123 The Queen Telegraphing her Message to her People throughout the Empire (litho) by Hall, Sydney Prior (1842-1922) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Dawn of the Century (colour litho)
3656459 Dawn of the Century (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dawn of the Century. Music cover.); Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection

The Telephone Exchange in London (engraving)
1044431 The Telephone Exchange in London (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Telephone Exchange in London)

Music by electric telegraph, 1849 (engraving)
3037845 Music by electric telegraph, 1849 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Punch comment on experiments in America where music is transmitted over long)

A marketing telephone call (colour litho)
3094452 A marketing telephone call (colour litho) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A marketing telephone call. Postcard, early 20th century)

Woman telephoning a plumber (colour litho)
3094450 Woman telephoning a plumber (colour litho) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Woman telephoning a plumber. Postcard, early 20th century)

Women telephoning a shop (colour litho)
3094440 Women telephoning a shop (colour litho) by American School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Women telephoning a shop. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Telephone Exchange (engraving)
3098021 Telephone Exchange (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Telephone Exchange)

The Telegraph Instrument Galleries, General Post Office (b / w photo)
3092176 The Telegraph Instrument Galleries, General Post Office (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Telegraph Instrument Galleries)

Submarine Telegraphy, the "Electra"grappling a Cable (engraving)
1047975 Submarine Telegraphy, the " Electra" grappling a Cable (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Submarine Telegraphy)

Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor of the telephone (chromolitho)
1093922 Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor of the telephone (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor of the telephone)

International exhibition of modern office equipment, Museum Grounds, Amsterdam, 1911 (litho)
982772 International exhibition of modern office equipment, Museum Grounds, Amsterdam, 1911 (litho) by Dutch School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Behind The 5th Army Frontline in Italy. Private J. Tillet and Lance Corporal R. Steer mend their mine detecting equipment on the Cassino front. 5th May 1944

Pat Lee of the Sunderland Breakers Club with Barnwell Primary School CB Club members Simon Kelly, left, Julia Hopkirk and Darren Richards. 10th December 1981

CB Radio breakers who have traditionally called on channel 19. 28th August 1995

CB radio gathering in South Shields. Pictured, a group of CB Thames monitors who today will act as show marshals. Left to right, David Musk Smith, Nicholas Watson, Richard Freeman, Dave Douglas

A man on a CB Radio. 27th January 1982

The manual telephone exchange in Newcastle. 22nd December 1930

When lance corporal Audrey Harris and pte. Phillipe Harris leave to go on parade t Rev. C.E.L. Harris, ex Pte. ex L/Cpl. ex Brig.Gen

Three Telephone Handsets

Woman Taking a Selfie

Woman Using a Telephone

Woman on the Telephone

Telephone and Notes

Exterior of the Central Electric Telegraph Station, founder s-court, Lothbury, London, at the rear of the Bank of England. Date: 1848

The Telephone; a telegraphic alarum, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The Telephone; a telegraphic alarum, 1844. A type of foghorn: The object of the..." Telephone or Marine Alarum and Signal Trumpet", by Captain J. N. Taylor, R.N

The Atlantic Telegraph, [1866]. Creator: Robert Charles Dudley
The Atlantic Telegraph, [1866]

Copper station, Nine Elms, Telegraph, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Copper station, Nine Elms, Telegraph, 1844. Such is its velocity, that when this [Electric Printing Telegraph] shall be laid down the entire line, the time occupied in the transit of a message

Telegraphing the Abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseilles to Paris, 1844. Postal and telegraph service between India and Britain

Military Telegraphic Corps, Army of the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862, 1862

The main telegraph office newly built in St. Petersburg and opened 14 October 1862, 1862

The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory, 1866

The Bay of Bull Arms, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Bonfires Lighted on the Hills to Notify of the Arrival of the Cable Fleet on August 5th, 1858, 1865-66

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