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248 Telegraph Operator Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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at the berlin telegraph office - telegraph operator stock illustrations

At the Berlin Telegraph Office

Maritime radio operators are trained at navigation schools in Hamburg and Bremen for work on German merchant fleet ships.

Telegraph operator in New York puts a call through to the fire brigade.

at the berlin telegraph office - telegraph operator stock illustrations

At the Berlin Telegraph Office

Telegraphers Working at Telegraph Machines

Telegraphers Working at Telegraph Machines

Operators at the switchboard of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's long distance exchange.

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on printing telegraph. In box under table are the wet cells supplying electricity. Wood engraving 1887

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on printing telegraph. In box under table are the wet cells (batteries) supplying electricity. Wood engraving 1887...

Trainee wireless telegraph operator at Marconi House, London, 18th March 1913. The 5 kilowatt apparatus is similar to that used on ocean-going liners.

Telegraph Operator

The two-needle telegraph was a descendant of the five-needle telegraph invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone . Unlike...

Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle telegraph, 1844.

Telegraph operator at the Central Telegraph Office at work on the private teletype machine which is used for messages to and from Buckingham Palace.

Messages for the Palace

Telegrapher Working at Telegraph Machine

Telegrapher Working at Telegraph Machine

View looking down at a teletype operator as she types in code. Undated photograph.

Teletypewriter Operator Working

Early telegraph apparatus and operators in Paris circa 1915.

Early telegraph apparatus and operators in Paris

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887. He is tapping out the message with a key using the code developed by Samuel...

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887.

Telegraph operator receiving a ticker tape message at a Cable & Wireless office where telegrams are sent via Imperial.

Tickertape Operator

View of a Morse code operator listening to Axis news in the radio room of the New York Times newspaper, New York, September 1942.

Morse Code Operator

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph by tapping out code with key. Under table are we cells supplying electricity . Wood...

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph by tapping out code with key. Under table are we cells (batteries) supplying electricity . Wood engraving 1887...

cameraman - telegraph operator stock illustrations

Lithograph printed from zinc by Grieve showing the two-needle telegraph, a descendant of the five-needle telegraph, invented in 1837 by William...

�Electric Telegraph on the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway, 1844.

Engraving by G Bartlett showing the two-needle telegraph, a descendant of the five-needle telegraph, invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cooke and...

�The Magnetic Needle Telegraph, c 1843.

The two-needle telegraph was a descendant of the five-needle telegraph invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone . Unlike...

Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle telegraph, 1844.

The British physicist David Edward Hughes was born in Wales but emigrated to the United States, where he invented this successful telegraph in 1855....

Hughes printing telegraph, 1860.

If you are an electician, mechanic, or telegraph operator, you belong in the US army signal corps, if you are not, we will train you. Get in Now.

US Army Signal Corps

Une machine telegraphique electrique a ete mise au point, permettant de taper le message automatiquement au lieu d'etre telephone a un operateur du...

Le Telegraphe Electrique

customer service - telegraph operator stock illustrations

Customer Service

Western Union telegraph operator at Pen-Dol Medical Center, August 13, 1938.

Western Union Telegraph

Western Union Telegraph Company switchboard operators in Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1938.

Western Union Telegraph Company

Worker operates the switchboard at the Central Telegraph Station in Electra House, London, the largest telegraph station in the world. The Post...

Telegraph Station

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph by tapping out code with key. Under table are we cells supplying electricity . Wood...

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph by tapping out code with key. Under table are we cells (batteries) supplying electricity . Wood engraving 1887...

Telegraph operator at work in a Cable and Wirele

Telegraph operator (B&W)

Engraving depicting a Morse telegraph transmitting key. Simple brass lever mounted on a hinge A, with a spring at F, to lift a lever when operator...

A Morse telegraph transmitting key.

Engraving depicting operators receiving a message on a Morse telegraph at the General Post Office. Dated 19th century.

Operators receiving a message on a Morse telegraph.

Engraving depicting an operator receiving a message on a Morse telegraph at the General Post Office. Dated 19th century.

An operator receiving a message on a Morse telegraph.

Man uses a Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. Payphone on the street in Tokyo Friday, February 3, 2006. NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's biggest mobile-phone...

A man uses a Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) paypho

Illustration depicting a wireless telegraph operator on a ship. Typical wireless room scene of the time, and not unlike the set up on the 'Titanic'....

A wireless telegraph operator.

Turkish patrol at night in Shipka, 2 the water carrier at the Turkish camp, 3 Poti lighthouse on the Black Sea, 4 Russian telegraph operator, 5...

Russo-Turkish War, L'Illustrazione Italiana

Illustration depicting the direct telegraph line between Newcastle and London for the Newcastle Chronicle. Right: reporter handing in a copy for...

The direct telegraph line of the Newcastle Chronicle.

Photograph taken within a landlocked radio-station which was able to serve the seven seas as an operator. Dated 20th century.

A landlocked radio-station.

Photograph taken within a landlocked radio-station which was able to serve the seven seas as an operator. Dated 20th century.

A landlocked radio-station.

The two-needle telegraph was a descendant of the five-needle telegraph invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone . Unlike...

Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle telegraph, 1844.

Engraving by Laplante after Bonnafoux. British physicist David Edward Hughes invented this successful telegraph in 1855. It was the first telegraph...

Hughess printing telegraph, c 1855.

Dummy double-sided single-needle telegraph used for training operators. By about 1870 needle telegraphs in Britain had standardised on the Morse...

Double-sided telegraph used for training operators, 1870-1930.

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system. In the 1850s and 1860s Sir Charles Wheatstone developed systems for the...

Perforator and stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, c 1900.

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system. In the 1850s and 1860s Sir Charles Wheatstone developed systems for the...

Perforator and stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, c 1900.

Pole-suspended bare-wire telegraph lines are extremely vulnerable to lightning, which can damage the very delicate electrical instruments and...

Varleys lightning protector for telegraph lines, 1861.

Engraving from the Illustrated London News showing operators receiving messages from Brunel�s �Great Eastern� at the telegraph house at Foillhummerum...

Receiving telegraph messages, 1865.

This early Morse key was used by the Post Office Telegraph Service. This key, which functions as a simple switch, is quite cumbersome in shape and...

Morse key, c 1850-1870.

The British physicist David Edward Hughes was born in Wales but emigrated to the United States, where he invented this successful telegraph in 1855....

Hughes printing telegraph, 1860.

The British physicist David Edward Hughes was born in Wales but emigrated to the United States, where he invented this successful telegraph in 1855....

Hughes printing telegraph, 1860.

The two-needle telegraph was a descendant of the five-needle telegraph invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone . Unlike...

Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle telegraph, 1844.

This early Morse key was used by the Post Office Telegraph Service. This key, which functions as a simple switch, is quite cumbersome in shape and...

Morse key, c 1850-1870.

The British physicist David Edward Hughes was born in Wales but emigrated to the United States, where he invented this successful telegraph in 1855....

Hughes printing telegraph, 1860.

Radio,TV.Wireless,Telegraph,Television

Radio News: The Navy Wants 4,000 Radio Operators!

British politician Charles Hill , the Postmaster-General,talks to telegraphist Mrs E. R. Appleyard inside the Mobile Telegraph Office, whilst parked...

Mobile Telegraph Office

vintage portrait of telegraph operator - telegraph operator stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Vintage portrait of telegraph operator

Denver Post--Auth, Editor, Jerry Cleveland-----Convicted murderer Park Estep listens to testimony by Ottis Toole Monday. Toole testified that he had...

Denver Post Archives

Des opératrices dans des cabines individuelles télégraphient les cours de la bourse, circa 1930 en Allemagne.

Opératrices télégraphiques

Mrs. Dorothy Smith, night chief operator at Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., has been on the night shift for 26 years and says "I prefer...

Denver Post Archives

Mary Lou Rea, long distance service assistant; supervises operations of the big long distance board manned by a line of operators, who will keep...

Denver Post Archives

In the control-room at London's great Battersea Power House an operator at a ship's telegraph makes a signal to reduce power as the electricity cut...

British Power Utilities - Electricity - Battersea Power House - London - 1947

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