Telegraph Collection (page 4)

Rear view of Charles Wheatstones electric (railway) telegraph, 1850. Showing its connection OT lines running beside the railway track. From Illustrations of Natural Philosophyby John Reynolds

Cook and Wheatstones 5-needle telegraph, 1837 (1915). The 5-needle telegraph was the first successful electric telecommunication device and was patented by Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke

Magnetism, c1850. Educational plate showing various aspects of magnetism and electromagnetism including a dip needle, compass, the lifting power of an electromagnet (12), Wheatstone telegraph (13)

Telegraph of the Siemens Company (For the Tsar Alexander II), 1859. Artist: Anonymous master
Telegraph of the Siemens Company (For the Tsar Alexander II), 1859. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

One of General Grants Union Field Telegraph stations during the American Civil War, 1861-1865

Female telegraph workers, 1871. Women working in the main (telegraph) instrument room, Post Office Telegraph Headquarters, Telegraph Street, London

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)

Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876). George Louis Lesage (1724-1803), Swiss scientist, devised an early form of electric telegraph

Aerial Telegraph: Ancient Greek soldiers tending a signal fire, c1900. It is claimed that news could be transmitted 525 km in a night. Trade card for Liebig Meat Extract

Aerial telegraph: ancient Roman signal towers, c1900. A basket containing fire was hung from an arm near the top of the tower and used to signal a message to the next tower in a chain

Under the Dark Blue Waters, 1872. Artist: Joseph Swain
Under the Dark Blue Waters, 1872. Father Neptune wishes to relax with his drink and a pipe. In front of him is the trans-Atlantic cable, the first of its kind

Very High Farming, 1870. Artist: Joseph Swain
Very High Farming, 1870. Science stands in a field holding a telegraph pole, complete with wires. The representative of the countrys farmers, scratches his head in wonder

The Atlantic Telegraph - A bad look out for Despotism, 1858. John Bull calling to Jonathan Hold fast, Jonathan. Jonathan replying All right, Johnny

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