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Telecommunications

Signal Hill Tattoo performance.

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Signal Hill

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

OMD telephone box.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Telephone Box

After the band included its number in one of their songs, the box became a monument to the musical group.

George Street entrance to the Guardian Telephone Exchange.

Manchester, England

Guardian Telephone Exchange Tunnels

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Dublin, Ireland

Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.

White Phone Booths of Hull

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

Lindsborg, Kansas

Swedish Phone Booth

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

Salem, Massachusetts

Lyceum Hall

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The cable hut.

Main Beach, Australia

Southport Cable Hut

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

Ewing Township, New Jersey

The Sarnoff Collection

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

'How's It Going?' Phone Booth

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

An 1861 engraving showing the cable's progression down Broadway.

New York Once Threw a Giant Parade to Celebrate a 1,600-Mile Cable

It was the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.

Sarah Laskow November 22, 2017

Washington, D.C.

Legislative Bell System

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together

And then let them snoop on each other.

Natasha Frost September 25, 2017

The memorial at Foilhommerum Cliff.

Telegraph Field Valentia Island

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

View Downwards from Observation Deck

Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn Teletorn (TV Tower)

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Happy customers of Great Expectations.

Videocassette Dating Let Singles Fast-Forward to Love

Long before Tinder, singles put themselves onscreen for love.

Cara Giaimo September 30, 2016

Mapping the Hidden Structures of New York City's Internet Networks

The internet is woven everywhere in city design; you just have to look closely.

Lauren Young September 8, 2016

objects of intrigue

The Battle Over Net Neutrality Started With the 1920s-Era 'Hush-A-Phone'

How an early telephone silencer took on AT&T.

Lauren Young August 16, 2016