Communication Collection (#35)

United States Army Signal Corps in France operating a field radio station, July 1918. US Army photograph

Fragment of a fresco showing the triumph of death, 14th century. Artist: Andrea Orcagna
Fragment of a fresco showing the triumph of death, 14th century

Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, 15th century BC
Minoan Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, in the Archaeological Museum of Heracleion, Crete. Linear B is a syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek

Central Telephone Exchange, Paris, 1883. Central Telephone Exchange, rue de Lafayette, Paris, staffed by female telephonists. From Louis Figuier Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science, Paris, 1883

Spirit unmasked at a London seance, 1880. Top: forming a circle by joining hands. Centre: a mediums assistant being placed behind a curtain (left), while spirit manifestations occur (right)

Spiritualist meeting in a Paris drawing room, 1853. Communicating with the other side by means of the hat, table-turning, and the pendulum. From L Illustration (Paris 1853)

Spiritualist meeting in Leipzig, Germany, 1893. Communicating with spirits by table-turning. From L Illustration. (Paris, 1853)

Opening of wireless telegraph link between Paris and Casablanca, 1907
Opening of wireless telegraph link between Paris and Casablanca, showing men whose work made it possible, Edouard Branly (1844-1940) and Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)

St Josephs Dream, c1677-1747. Artist: Francesco Solimena
St Josephs Dream, c1677-1747. An Angel appearing to Joseph in a dream, telling him to take Mary as his wife because she was carrying the Son of God

George Stephensons locomotive Rocket, c1875

Inn yard with Mail Coach preparing to leave, c1840. This shows a typical galleried inn yard with individual rooms leading off the galleries

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and radio pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and radio pioneer. Marconi with typical apparatus, including 10-inch induction coil spark transmitter (right), morse inker and grasshopper key in centre

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