Telecommunication Collection (page 6)

An Automatic Telephone Receiver, c1930. Creator: Unknown
An Automatic Telephone Receiver, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. Creator: Unknown
London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Crippens Life at Sea, front page of the News of the World, 31 July 1910
Crippens Life at Sea, front page of the " News of the World", 31 July 1910. Headline story about murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover, Ethel le Neve

Telephone Station and Hotels, Gudvangen, Norway, 1895. Creator: Poulton & Co
Telephone Station and Hotels, Gudvangen, Norway, 1895. From " Round the World in Pictures and Photographs: From London Bridge to Charing Cross via Yokohama and Chicago"

Operations Room, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
Operations Room, c1943. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), whose members were referred to as WaFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during World War II

A Station Intelligence Room, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
A Station Intelligence Room, c1943. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), whose members were referred to as WaFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during World War II

On Signals Duty, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
On Signals Duty, c1943. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), whose members were referred to as WaFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during World War II

How the Titanic met with Disaster on her Maiden Voyage, April 20, 1912. Creator: Unknown
How the Titanic met with Disaster on her Maiden Voyage, April 20, 1912. Map of the North Atlantic Ocean, with portraits of William Pirrie

How the Titanic met with disaster... and The Cunard liner Carpathia... April 20, 1912
How the Titanic met with Disaster on her Maiden Voyage, April 20, 1912. Map of the North Atlantic Ocean, with portraits of William Pirrie

President Ronald Reagan speaks to astronauts on the Space Shuttle, 1981. Creator: NASA
President Ronald Reagan speaks to astronauts on the second Space Shuttle flight, Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA, November 1981

Lenin and Stalin at the Direct Wire, 1918, (1939). Creator: Pyotr Vasilyev
Lenin and Stalin at the Direct Wire, 1918, (1939). Russian communist revolutionaries Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) and Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) reading information sent by telegraph

Mr. Jorrocks telegraphs the Fox, 1838. Artist: Henry Thomas Alken
Mr. Jorrocks telegraphs the Fox, 1838. Scene depicting one of the humorous adventures of Mr Jorrocks, a vulgar Cockney grocer who aspires to the sporting life in the country

Telephonist, c1914-c1918. French soldiers: the man on the right is from the 33rd Infantry Division. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I

Dr. Simpson in the Hut at the Other End of the Telephone Timing the Observation, c1911, (1913). Meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965)

Look-out post, Bois-le-Pretre, northern France, c1914-c1915
Look-out post, Bois-le-Pre tre, northern France, c1914-c1915. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

At the nerve centres of the Service, 1940. From Life in the W.A.A.F. booklet on the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), in Tucks Better Little Book series

Hands the form over her shoulder, 1940. From I m A Firegirl, booklet on the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), in Tucks Better Little Book series

Telegraphists, Somme, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Communications, Genicourt, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Central telephone post at Froideterre, Verdun, northern France, c1916. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Telephoning To The Shore from Mid-Ocean, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

One of the Wireless Cabins in a modern liner, 1936
One of the Wireless Cabins in a modern liner, showing on the left the 2-kilowatts medium and long-wave telegraph transmitter, 1936. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol

Interior of an office with a man on the telephone, Greenwich, London, November 1936
Interior of an office on the ground floor, with a man on the telephone, 1 High Bridge, Greenwich, London, November 1936. A messy office is piled with papers and box files

Street fire alarm, Southwark, London, 1932. Box with a telephone from which the fire brigade could be called. These boxes would have had keys to deter hoax callers

Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth, London, 1940
Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, 1940. Interior of the telephone exchange showing telephonists sitting at the switchboard

Bull and Mouth Street, City of London, 1825. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
View of the Old General Post Office, St Martins le Grand, London, 1825. With busy street scene and a carriage

General Post Office, London, c1844. Artist: TH Ellis
Interior view of the inland office at the Old General Post Office, London, c1844, on the east side of St Martins le Grand showing figures sorting mail

General Post Office, London, 1852. Artist: Thomas Picken
View of the Old General Post Office on St Martins le Grand, London, 1852. With the dome of St Pauls Cathedral in the background and figures

General Post Office, London, c1840
View of the Old General Post Office on the east side of St Martins le Grand, London, c1840; with figures carrying packages and horse drawn vehicles speeding towards their destination

General Post Office, London, c1835. Artist: John Woods
View of the Old General Post Office on the east side of St Martins le Grand, London, c1835; with St Pauls Cathedral in the background, also showing stage coaches

Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s. Artist
Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s

Inside a New York telephone exchange, USA, early 1930s

Female telephone operators on strike in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1919. One of many strikes that broke out in the United States in 1919

Japanese soldier making a telephone call, Russo-Japanese War, c1904-c1905. Artist
Japanese soldier making a telephone call, Russo-Japanese War, c1904-c1905. A Japanese soldier reporting the situation by telephone to Western journalists

Observer of a kite-balloon testing the telephone before ascending, France, World War I, 1916. During the Somme Offensive of July-November 1916

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago, USA, 1892. Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets, 20th century. Artist
Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets, London, 20th century. The cables are fastened to the wires by rawhide suspenders

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Artist: Robert Dudley
Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich

HMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). Artist
HMS Agamemnon laying the original Atlantic telegraph cable, 1857 (1866). HMS Agamemnon was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion

Road control room, Park Gate Iron & Steel Co, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. A controller with his intercom keeps a view on the access road to the steelworks at the Park Gate Iron & Steel Co in

Comunications, a miner from Bevercotes Colliery, Nottinghamshire, 1967. A miner talks on the on the underground telephone

Switch board operator, Spillers Animal Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1960. Artist
Switch board operator, Spillers Animal Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1960. A late 1950s style plug in telephone switch board

Boy scouts learning radio transmitting, 1960s

Portrait, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Portrait, 1941. A woman of the Womens Royal Navy Service takes a telephone call. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Reading signals flashed by Aldis lamp, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Reading signals flashed by Aldis lamp, 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Samuel Morse 1791-1872, 1934. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter

Marconi - Geb. 1874, 1934. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874-1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission

John Swain & Son Limited advertisement, 1907. From The British Printer Vol. XX. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1907]

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