Telecommunication Collection

Great Eastern
September 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern. Original Publication: Illustrated London News

The Aerial Man
1843: The aerial man passing over the Royal Greenwich Observatory, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Great Eastern
May 1853: The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunel's steamship the Great Eastern'. Original Publication: Illustrated London News

Ship To Shore
circa 1930: A woman uses a telephone in a ship-to-shore service. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Control Board
circa 1930: A control board where a land circuit and the circuit from the radio transmitter join in ship-to-shore phone links. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Over And Out
circa 1930: A member of the New York Metropolitan police using a radio-telephone link for communicating with the citys police radio cars. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

First Phone Call
circa 1930: A Mongolian man uses a telephone for the first time. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Gale Decorations
18th March 1947: A telegraph pole stands strewn with hay after stormy weather in Hertfordshire. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

William Hut
14th May 1853: The William Hut paying out the transatlantic electric cable. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1853 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Atlantic Telegraph
May 1865: Messages arrive from Brunels steamship the Great Eastern in the instrument room of the Telegraph House at Foilhommerum in Valencia

Receiving Station
circa 1935: Aerials of a commercial wireless station at Bridgwater wireless receiving station of Cable and Wireless Ltd. Tey are dipole aerials where directional not broadcast transmission is wanted

Telephonists
circa 1930: Operators at the switchboard of the American Telephone and Telegraph Companys long distance exchange. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fifties Telephone
2nd August 1951: A British telephone handset with dial. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Man with cell phone
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Victorian Telephone
A woman using a telephone. Original Artwork: The Graphic - pub. 1882 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Spinning Telegram
A telegraph worker records a message from the ticker tape slip. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Radiotelegraphy
December 1928: A crowd gathers at Selfridges, London, to read about a demonstration of an early wireless machine used for sending messages. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sending A Message
circa 1845: A man sending a message on an early morse code machine. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Cat Operator
16th February 1934: Ginger, a young cat trying to join in the conversation, when the phone is answered. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

City view from the radio tower to the TV tower, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Senior woman with netbook and headset lying in a hammock

Hesselberg mountain, Middle Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Man using a smartphone

New York Telephone Exchange
Exterior of the first headquarters of the New York Telephone Exchange at 18 Cortlandt Street, New York, New York, late 1890s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Chimp Chat
An adult chimpanzee and a baby chimp engage in telephone conversation, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Masked Operator
A Chesterfield Borough Police telephone operator tests a gasmask with built in earpiece and microphone. The telephone service is considered one of the most important links in the coordination of ARP

Telegraph Operator
A trainee wireless telegraph operator at Marconi House, London, 18th March 1913. The 5 kilowatt apparatus is similar to that used on ocean-going liners

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