Telegraphy Collection (page 3)

Picking up the Atlantic cable, 1866 (c1880). An attempt in 1865 by Brunels giant steamship, the Great Eastern to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable ended in failure when the cable snapped

Pom-pom bridge and Boer headquarters telegraph station, Tugela River, Natal, South Africa, 1901. Stereoscopic card

Telegraph Office, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

The Atlantic telegraph expedition, Content Bay, Newfoundland, 1866. As seen from the deck of the Great Eastern. From a supplement to The Illustrated London News (8 September 1866)

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), English physicist and writer, early 20th century. Lodge was involved in the development of the wireless telegraph

Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor, 1926. Morse was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810-1977), of the Morse code

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, c1920. Portrait of Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), physicist and inventor of wireless transmission

The Great Eastern recovering the lost Atlantic cable, 1866, (c1920). An attempt in 1865 by Brunels giant steamship, the Great Eastern to lay the cable ended in failure when the cable snapped

US military telegraph wagon, American Civil War, 1861-1865 (c1880). After Gardner: Photo Sketch Book of the War. A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III

The Western Union Telegraph Companys buildings, Broadway and Dey Street, New York, 1892. Artist: Boudier
The Western Union Telegraph Companys buildings, Broadway and Dey Street, New York, 1892

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, 1926. Artist: Alick P F Ritchie
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, 1926. Portrait of Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), physicist and inventor of wireless transmission

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American inventor, (1934). Morse (1791-1872) was a painter of portraits and historic scenes. It is disputed whether Morse had invented the electrical telegraph in 1837 as

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, Italian electrical engineer, (c1924). Marconi (1874-1937) is known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system

Ernst Werner von Siemens 19th century German inventor and industrialist, (1900). Siemens (1816-1892) co-invented an electroplating process (1841) and also developed an electric dynamo

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 19th century American inventor, (1900). Morse (1791-1872) was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810-1977)

The Atlantic Telegraph Cable, Parade, c1858. Celebrating the telegraph cable that crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven

Sir Charles Wheatstone, British inventor, (1899). Artist: C Cook
Sir Charles Wheatstone, British inventor, (1899). Wheatstone (1802-1875) was a pioneer of electric telegraphy. In 1837, he and William Fothergill Cooke patented their five-needle telegraph machine

Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappes semaphore, 1792, (c1870). Chappes (1763-1805) system was in use in France and French colonies until about 1850

Morse telegraph operating room, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1859. From The Telegraph Manual, by TP Shaffner. (New York 1859). Credit Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Morse telegraphy, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1859. The public reception room where telegraph messages could be sent and received. From The Telegraph Manual by TP Shaffner. (New York 1859)

Paul Jablochkoff, Russian telegraph engineer, 1883. In 1867 Jablochkoff (1847-1914) invented the Jablochkoff candle, a carbon arc lamp. From Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science by Louis Figuier

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American artist and inventor, 1873. Morse (1791-1872) was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810-1977)

Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Marconi (1874-1937) discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, 1906. Marconi (1874-1937) discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to

Heroic wireless operators, 1912. Top: sending SOS signals from the wireless room of the Titanic as the water rises. Bottom: the last minutes of the wireless operators during the Fez massacre

Claude Chappe demonstrating his optical telegraph (semaphore) system in 1793 (c1870). Chappes (1763-1805) system was in use in France and French colonies until about 1850

Opening of the 1851 London to Paris telegraph link (1852)
Opening of the 1851 London to Paris telegraph link. Instrument room at the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London, showing the Wheatstone needle telegraph instruments

New Year greetings from stockbrokers Mercer Locock to their clients, 1894. The illustration at the top portrays international links by telegraph and telephone

Laying the transatlantic telegraph cable, 1865. On the deck of the SS Great Eastern searching the cable for a fault after its recovery from the bottom of the Atlantic on 31 July 1865

Laying of the telegraph cable across the Indian Ocean between Bombay and Aden, 1870. Landing the shore end of the cable at Aden

Laying the transatlantic telegraph cable, 1865 (1866). Preparing to grapple for the broken cable from the bows of the SS Great Eastern, 2 August 1865

The Atlantic Telegraph, c1878. Idealised view of the telegraph cable passing under the ocean from Valentia, Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland

Main station of the Exchange Telegraph Company, London, 1882. An operator receives a message on a ticker-tape machine. A Morse transmitting instrument is connected directly to the Stock Exchange

For Better or Worse, 1866. Father Neptune blessing Britannia and Uncle Sam on the successful laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable

Opening of the London to Paris telegraph link, 1852. The instrument room at the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London, showing a Wheatstone needle telegraph instrument

Lord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877. Artist: John Wright Oakes
Lord Kelvins transatlantic telegraph, 1877. William Thomsons (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907) receiving apparatus used at Brest, France, including his mirror galvanometer (left)

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on an electric printing telegraph, 1887. In the box under the table are the wet cells (batteries) supplying electricity

Telegraph office, c1900. A man reads a message he has received (left). Inside the office an operator sends a message using a Morse transmitting key (right)

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887. He is tapping out the message with a key using the code developed by Samuel Morse and Alexander Bain

Morses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Artist: Sir John Gilbert
Morses first telegraph, 1837 (c1900). Invented by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), this was the first functional electric telegraph

Morse electric printing telegraph, c1882. Rear view of the instrument showing the roll of paper for recording messages and the transmitting key at C. D are wet cells (batteries) providing electricity

Lord Kelvin, Scottish mathematician and physicist, 1876. Born William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was educated at Glasgow and Cambridge

Facsimile or copying telegraph system by Amstutz of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1896

Alexander Glens facsimile telegraph system, 1886. From a paper read to the United Service Institution, England, 15 Janaury 1886

Casellis pantelegraph, 1874. This device, invented by the Italian abbot and inventor Giovanni Caselli (1815-1891) was effectively an early fax machine

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)

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