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.
Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
This pamphlet was produced in 1879 by The Telephone Company to encourage people to take up the telephone. It contains an amusing series of cartoons in an attempt to show people how they might use this newfangled technology. These include a lady phoning her stables, to ask them to bring the carriage round and - less plausibly - some fishermen phoning an underseas worker! It includes advice on how to use the telephone, with instructions on speaking clearly and correct pronunciation of numbers.