Instructions for use
Select an object to view from the list below. To rotate either click on the rotate icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the image or click and drag within the object window.
Telesonic Lorgnette
Submarine telegraph cable
Cookes portable double-needle telegraph
School telephone
Portable double-needle telegraph, 1850
Box telephone, c.1877
John Gaveys ring transformer
Valve heater transformer
This is a portion of the cable laid across the River Medina, Isle of Wight, in about 1878. It is believed to have been used in A G Bells telephone demonstration to Queen Victoria in January 1878 when connexion was established between Osborne House, Osborne Cottage and Cowes. The cable was recovered in 1977.