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  • Telegraph stations in Britain and Europe. Engraving (?).
  • Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
  • Components of the electromechanical telegraph network. Process print.
  • Simla, India: roads winding down from the telegraph office. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • A line of shops beside a dusty street, with telegraph poles overhead, in Korea.
  • Telegraphy: four different inventors' telegraph machines [on exhibition in Paris?]. Wood engraving, (1889?) by Poyet.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.
  • Telegram sent by G. Marconi in Wimereux to Édouard Branly in Paris, acknowledging Branly's work in developing the electric telegraph across the Channel. Photograph, ca. 1899.
  • The ship Agamemnon at anchor off Greenwich before setting off to lay the telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to Canada. Wood engraving by F.J. Smyth, 1857, after E. Weedon.
  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a steeply descending road, with telegraph poles on the left, a wall and fields on the right, huge mountainous waves in the distance. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1978.
  • Telegraphy: symbols used in to convey various letters and numbers telegraphically. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • A pair of police constables, wearing stovepipe hats, rushing to send a telegraphic report of a murder. Engraving.
  • A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...
  • A troubled and impecunious giant was brought up at Bow-street the other day before the presiding magistrate. : His name was James Patrick Tolley, aged forty-eight, standing seven feet five inches in his stockings ...
  • Two hands on top of each other within a blue triangle with a computer screen and telephone and details of the AIDS information services: Minitel Dialogue, Numero Vert and the SIDA Info-Service; advertisement by AIDES. Colour lithograph.
  • Magnetism: electrical equipment and magnetic phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850.
  • Broadway, New York City: view from the Post Office. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Adelaide, South Australia: King William Street. Albumen print by S.W. Sweet.
  • A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer. Wood engraving after W. Haywood, 1854.
  • Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Victoria Peak, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Electricity and its industrial applications. Coloured engraving by Langevin, 1853, after L. Allard.
  • High-level building maintenance workers using a harness for safety. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • John Hyde. Engraving by W. Sharp after R. Home. Engraving.