David Hayさんのイラストまとめ

Fortunate the other day to see the wonderful new @britishmuseum exhibition of the work of artist and tortured soul Edvard Munch. https://t.co/s8OORm7vN1. Struck by this piece "Separation II". The woman's hair represents telephone wires, symbolising the power of communications.

#OTD 1935 the price of Wales, later Edward VIII, reviewed telegram messenger boys outside the Central Telegraph Office near St Paul's in London. BT Centre, @BTGroup HQ, on the site today- a centre of global #telecoms for almost 150 years https://t.co/3HVDcMpzCU #londonhistoryday

Happy International Dance Day! Women at the GPO Central Engineering Training School at Stone in Staffordshire with their glad rags on for the weekly dance 60 years ago in 1959 #worlddanceday #InternationalDanceDay #archives

44 years ago on 24 February 1975 Led Zeppelin released their iconic album "Physical Graffiti". The cover reminds me of this 1890s marketing by The National Telephone Company, a @BTGroup predecessor. Also this #archives photo of the NTC exchange and offices in New St, Birmingham.

Only just realised that two American #telecoms pioneers who both played important roles in the development of the telephone, Almon B Strowger (1839-1902) and Thomas Edison (1847-1931) shared the same birthday, 11 February. https://t.co/vxGMBoHgDD

Edward VIII abdicated #OTD 1936. Here as Prince of Wales in June 1935 reviewing messenger boys at the Central Telegraph Office in London, now the site of BT Centre, launching "telegraph Week" and a 50% reduction in telegram charges. https://t.co/cczTUeRWnI … #telecoms #archives

Frank Scudamore, GPO senior manager who oversaw the nationalistaion of the electric telegraph #telecoms network in the UK in 1870. What he lacked on top was more than compensated by his splendid whiskers.
https://t.co/xdyw0qXu6Z #hairyarchives #ExploreArchives

W H Preece, the telegraph, telephone and wireless radio pioneer, a great Welsh scientist, was appointed GPO Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician #OTD 1892. He was an early mentor of Marconi https://t.co/EPMgWM9q9j #HistSTM #telecoms #Archivescience

160 years ago today Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic telegram, to US President James Buchanan over the new transatlantic electric telegraph cable #OTD 1858 https://t.co/QWHLkONUfq #telecoms #histstem

#OTD 1855 The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph was first published, during the Crimean War. The electric telegraph linking the front to London sent news “with the speed of lightning”. As the Electric Telegraph Co, BT supplied the army's first mobile #telecoms unit in 1854 in the Crimea