Telegraphy Collection

The Rhodes Colossus, 1892 Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
The Rhodes Colossus, 1892. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), English-born South African businessman and statesman, shown striding across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo with a telegraph wire

Wireless officer sending a message by Morse Code from on board a ship, 1916
Wireless officer sending a message by morse code from on board a ship, 1916. Wireless telegraphy at sea was made possible by the type of sending

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable, 1865

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865, 1865

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

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.

Petropavlovsk. Post and telegraph, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Petropavlovsk. Post and telegraph, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

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

Breguet Dial Telegraph Transmitter, c. 1870. Creator: Anonymous
Breguet Dial Telegraph Transmitter, c. 1870. Private Collection

Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917
Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. USA. Sign reads: Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office - Messengers Furnished

Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917
Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. USA. Sign reads: Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office - Messengers Furnished

Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917
Western Union Office, between 1913 and 1917. USA. Sign reads: Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office - Messengers Furnished

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - Plough for Laying the Wire, 1854. Crimean War. The appliances for laying out the wire over irregular ground, and through marshes and rivers

Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Electric Telegraph for the Seat of War - the Waggon, 1854. Crimean War. The Electric Telegraph Company have lately supplied Government with a very complete

Portrait of Édouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Edouard Branly (1844-1940), physicist, c1920

An Indian Railway Station, 1854. Creator: Unknown
An Indian Railway Station, 1854. A Correspondent...writes: "Having frequently seen in your Journal Illustrations of railway platforms in England

Laying down the Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Cable at Spezia, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Laying down the Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Cable at Spezia, 1854. Cable-laying between Italy and Corsica. The Mediterranean Electric Telegraph

Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - Temporary Station at Dover...1850. Creator: Unknown
Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - Temporary Station at Dover - Steamers preparing to Start, 1850. Ships laying a telegraph cable between England and France

Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - The Electric Wire at Cape Grinez, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - The Electric Wire at Cape Grinez, 1850. Ships laying a telegraph cable between England and France

Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - The Goliah Steamer...1850. Creator: Unknown
Submarine Electric Telegraph between Dover and Calais - The Goliah Steamer "Paying Out" the Electric Wire, 1850

Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S
Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station, between c1900 and c1930

Telegraph operator in Irkutsk, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, between 1880 and 1886. Creator: Unknown
Telegraph operator in Irkutsk, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, between 1880 and 1886. Written on verso: Telegraph operator in Irkutsk who spoke the language of Shakespeare's time

The Great Eastern, 1860: The Vessel leaving Southampton on her First Voyage, June 17, (1901). The SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with John Scott

Cape to Cairo, 1899. Artist: John Tenniel
Cape to Cairo, 1899. Cecil Rhodes asking the German Emperor Wilhelm II for permission for the Cape to Cairo telegraph line to be laid across German territories in Africa

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: experiments in wireless telegraphy, (1902?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: experiments in wireless telegraphy, (1902?)

Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Hooper's patent submarine telegraph cables, 1862. Mr. Hooper's cable is composed of the usual copper or other conductor insulated with indiarubber

Marshall Jewell, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown
Marshall Jewell, 1865-1880. Jewell, Hon. Marshall, Post-Master General, between 1865 and 1880. [Manufacturer, pioneer telegrapher, telephone entrepreneur

Telegraphic Love, n. d. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne
Telegraphic Love, n.d

Field Telegraph, Battery Wagon, September 1864. Creator: David Knox
Field Telegraph, Battery Wagon, September 1864. [Scene from the American Civil War: covered wagon with US Military Telegraph Headquarters written on the side

U. S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps, April 1864. Creator: Alexander Gardner
U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps, April 1864. Albumen print, pl. 62 from the album " Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)

Moritz Hermann von Jacobis Telegraph, 1843. Creator: Historic Object
Moritz Hermann von Jacobis Telegraph, 1843. Found in the collection of State Central Railway Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (1801-1874), 1837. Creator: Hau, Eduard (1807-1887)
Portrait of Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (1801-1874), 1837. Private Collection

The Telegraph, and Church of St Olafs before the fire, 1843. Creator: Unknown
The Telegraph, and Church of St Olafs before the fire, 1843. The Telegraph Tower, a former shot tower, was used as a telegraph station for the communication of intelligence from the Downs

The Electric Telegraph Station, at Slough, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The Electric Telegraph Station, at Slough, 1844. News of the birth of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is relayed to London

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

The Settlement and Church of Hearts Content, Newfoundland, 1866

First Telegraph House at Hearts Content, Newfoundland, 1866, 1866

Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857-1858, 1865-66

Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865-66. Creator: Robert Charles Dudley
Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865, 1865-66

View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern... 1865-66
View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. 1865-66

Valentia, Ireland, from the Harbor, Opposite Knight s-town, at the Period of Laying the Cable of 1857, 1865-66

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire, July 21st, 1865, 1865-66

Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865, 1865

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