Gallery

Telephones through time

The telephone has become an essential tool of communication – from its invention in 1876 to the ever-connected mobile and conference calls we have today. This gallery tracks the development of telephones through time.

Curated by Published gallery

19 items

Telephone apparatus

Electric Bureau

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Telephone Room, with officials in tele…

Wellcome Collection

Telephone apparatus

Bell Co

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Ring bell

American Electric Telephone Co

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Telephone apparatus

Televerkets verkstad

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Bildtelefon

L.M. Ericsson

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Man met telefoon

Rijksmuseum

Field telephone on Rombon

K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien

Austrian National Library

Trient, Telefon- und Telegrafenzentrale

K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien

Austrian National Library

[Unpublished item]
Telefonáló hölgy

Bauer Sándor, fényképész

Fortepan

Telephone apparatus

Electric Bureau

Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology

Sch.Regiment 33 Zarzece on Stochod

K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien

Austrian National Library

Mascots

Polish National Film Archive

The birthday of Matilda

Polish National Film Archive

Wallets 27 April 1966 A woman speaks on the phone in a small office

Örebro Kuriren

Örebro County Museum

Office telephone with central battery converted to automatic

National Heritage Institute, Bucharest

A doctor on the telephone (which is linked up to a television screen) to a patient whom he…

D.L. Ghilchip

Wellcome Collection

interior

Lindberg Foto

Helsingborg Museum