Telegraphy Collection (page 2)

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

In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865, 1865

Coiling the Cable in the After-tank on Board the Great Eastern at Sheerness: Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on May 23rd, 1865, 1865-66

The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich, 1865-66

The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern, 1865

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland, 1865-66

The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich, 1865-66

September 8th at Hearts Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing and testing the Atlantic Telegraph Cables of 1865 and 1866, 1866

Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865, 1865-66

Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple... 1865-66
Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple for the Lost Cable, August 11th, 1865, 1865-66

The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan, 1865-66

The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern, 1865

Getting Out One of the Large Buoys for Launching, August 2nd, 1865, 1865

H. M. S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line
H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line, 1865-66

Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out, 1865-66

The Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865, 1865

Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865, 1865-66

Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle, 1865-66

View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern, 1865-66

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

Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc. 1866, 1865-66

News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc. 1866

The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866, 1866

At the Telegraph. Creator: Beraud, Jean (1849-1936)
At the Telegraph. Private Collection

First telegraph despatch from Lyon, 4 March 1815, (1921). Creator: Unknown
First telegraph despatch from Lyon, 4 March 1815, (1921). Premiere depeche telegraphique de Lyon. Message sent via French inventor Claude Chappes (1763-1805) optical telegraph (semaphore) system

The ship Montrose - Wireless Telegraphy Used To Catch A Murderer, 1910, (1933). Creator
The ship Montrose - Wireless Telegraphy Used To Catch A Murderer, 1910, (1933). Murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover, Ethel le Neve, were arrested on board the Atlantic liner Montrose

The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1857: H.M.S. Agamemnon... (1901). Creator: Unknown
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1857: H.M.S. Agamemnon fitted with the machine for passing the coil overboard, (1901). HMS Agamemnon was the first warship to be built with screw propulsion

The breaking of the Atlantic Cable on board the Great Eastern, August 2, 1865, (1901). The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in

Training in telecommunications, 1941. Creator: Charles Brown
Training in telecommunications, 1941. British RAF personnel in the classroom during the Second World War: Class work...in properly equipped rooms

Wireless operator... RMS Titanic, 1912, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Wireless operator Harold Bride being questioned about SOS messages sent during the sinking of RMS Titanic, 1912, (1935). The wireless operator is undergoing examination as to the time the SOS

Senator Marconi in the Wireless Room of his Yacht. Creator: Unknown
Senator Marconi in the Wireless Room of his Yacht. Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874-1937), Italian inventor

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

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

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

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

The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, August 8th, 1866. Artist: Robert Dudley
The laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, August 8th, 1866. The launching of the buoy marking the spot where the cable had been grappled

Taborno Church, Anaga Mountains, Tenerife, 2007

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

Sir Oliver Lodge, 1927. Artist: Sir Leslie Matthew Ward
Sir Oliver Lodge, 1927. A portrait of Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), British physicist and writer involved in the development of radio. [The Bookman, Christmas portfolio, 1927]

Transmitting a message, 1894. An operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph. From A Popular History of Science, by Robert Routledge, BSc (Lond.), F.C.S

Antonio Lopez Coloma, (1859-1896), 1920s
Antonio Lopez Coloma, born in Sabanilla in 1859, was settler and telegrapher. Had a farm in the demolished ingenio La Ignacia where he fought on the 24th of February

Map of the world showing sailing routes and telegraph cables, c1893. Artist: George Philip & Son Ltd
Map of the world showing sailing routes and telegraph cables, c1893. From Outlines of British Colonisation, by William Henry Parr Greswell

Telegraphs, 1871. Artist: Coide
Telegraphs, 1871. A caricature of John Pender (1815-1896), British pioneer of submarine telegraphy. In 1852, Pender became a director of the Atlantic Telegraph Company

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy, Signal Hall, Newfoundland, 1901 (1951). Marconi with the instruments with which he received the first transatlantic wireless signals on 12th

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Fields (1819-1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid

Edouard Branly, French physicist, 1900. Branly (1844-1940) was a pioneer of early radio and inventor of the coherer (1892)

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping