Telecommunications has been one of the biggest businesses of the past 100 years. This journey tells the story of some of the people and organisations involved.
Telegraph, telephone, wireless and mobile: the story of how the various communication networks were constructed over the last two hundred years or so.
'We are not interested in the possibilities of failure - they do not exist,' Queen Victoria once said.
Telecommunications was the cutting edge business of the late 19th century and the foremost growth industry of the past 100 years.
If you want to see the physical monument to the history of telecommunications in Britain, just look around you ...
Visit the updated Communicate! galllery at the National Museum of Scotland.
Discover the records behind the history of telecommunications as BT Heritage launches online catalogue.
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