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Eton College school boys visiting Windsor Telephone Exchange 1935

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On 19 February 1884 L M Ericsson of Sweden combined the transmitter and receiver to produce the earliest telephone handset. Here's an example of the slightly later handset GPO telephone.
More recent (mobile) phones rarely seen around today https://t.co/DAJ4Kfc7Oi … …

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1802 Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS was born - scientist, electric telegraph inventor & a founder of the company that ultimately evolved into today's BT

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1874 The Central Telegraph Office (CTO) in London moved to GPO (West) opposite St Paul's cathedral, now the site of BT's headquarter's building in Newgate St. https://t.co/c5txM4lrad

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1880 the first trunk (long distance) telephone line was opened, between Leeds and Bradford in Yorkshire

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19 January 1878: Not 999 which was introduced in 1937, but possibly the first ever telephone call?

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Bravery of women telephone operators in a Zeppelin raid on Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Kings Lynn etc 1915. Read more on how GPO and people helped win https://t.co/WJQ8SfoL1l

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1854 telephone pioneer, shipbuilder and Shakespearean actor Thomas Augustus Watson was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He assisted Alexander Graham Bell and received Bell's first phone call “Mr. Watson—come here—I want you.” https://t.co/CIbEt2howX

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themed comic postcard, from an age of fabulous hats, furs and gender stereotypical puns.

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W H Preece, the telegraph, telephone and wireless radio pioneer, a great Welsh scientist, was appointed GPO Engineer-in-Chief and Electrician 1892. He was an early mentor of Marconi https://t.co/YVguoq9LIo

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