Telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation

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A telephone representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

The numbers of the AIDS Hotline in Hong Kong '2780 2211' arranged in squares in a semi-circle with the silhouette of a hand pointing to the digits of a telephone below; advertisement by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Franol-Plus. 1, Ericsson Magneto Telephone circa 1900.

Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Record Room, with two women answering the telephone and writing in registers. Photograph, September 1918.

A phone receiver [?] in the form of a creature with tails as antennae, and a body comprising an egg box opened to reveal 6 red eggs as the telephone digits [?]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Raúl, ca. 1995.

Sound / by John Tyndall.

A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Various objects and symbols on a light grey ground

Mobile phones and health : summary and recommendations / Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones.

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922), teacher of the deaf and inventor of the telephone

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Sound / by John Tyndall.

A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Various objects and symbols on a light grey ground

Mobile phones and health : summary and recommendations / Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones.

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922), teacher of the deaf and inventor of the telephone