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Communications


§ Post and Letter Writing (incl.pneumatic despatch)

— delivery times and postal regulations

— envelopes (1) (2)

— frequency of deliveries

— General Post Office

— handwriting

— letter-boxes (1)

— letters

— Mulready envelopes;

— parcels and freight

— pens (1) (2)

— pigeons

— pneumatic despatch (1) (2)

— post and letter writing in the 1830s

— the postal system

— 'The Post-Office Horse'

— stamps

— typewriters

§ Telegraph / Wireless

— 'the comic telegraph'

— description and history

— early telegraphy

— laying the Atlantic Cable

— pictures by telegraph

— Reuters

— telegraph at home 

— 'telegraph instrument galleries'

— telegraph offices

— telegraph tapes and gambling

— wireless telegraphy

— women as telegraphists

§ Telephone and Speaking-Tube

— description of telephones

— demonstration of telephones

— electrophone (1) (2 picture)

— speaking-tubes