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Telecommunications

Fort Myers, Florida

Punta Rassa Telegraph Station

A telegraph station used to send information from Cuba to the U.S. during the Spanish-American War.

The note from 1888 was written in code.

A Secret Note Hidden in an 1800s Dress Has Been Decoded

A team explores insights about Victorian life and who the woman might have been.

Meg St-Esprit January 16, 2024

Boston, Massachusetts

Birthplace of the Telephone

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muzium Telekom (Telecom Museum)

Malaysia's first interactive museum.

Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station

Hamelin Pool, Australia

Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station

This remote historic museum tells the story of the early telecommunications systems in 1800s Australia.

Marconi American Wireless Company Tower sign.

Wall Township, New Jersey

Marconi American Wireless Company Tower

A piece of telecommunications history.

#9 C Switchboard from Tucumcari, circa 1958.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Telephone Pioneer Museum of New Mexico

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Podcast: America’s 'Quiet Zone'

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team September 21, 2022

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West Chester, Ohio

Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

The Light Box has an exhibit by Fi Bailey as of September 2019.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Porty Light Box

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

Pushing the building.

Guadalajara, Mexico

Telmex Building

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.

Gauss-Weber Telegraph Memorial.

Göttingen, Germany

Gauss-Weber Telegraph Memorial

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

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.

Cream phone booths.

White Phone Booths of Hull

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

Swedish phone booth.

Lindsborg, Kansas

Swedish Phone Booth

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