Communications Technology
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 725 items relating to communications technology. These date broadly from the 19th and 20th centuries. This collection includes 55 office-based telegraphic items and 58 items relating to telephony, which, in addition to computers and typewriters, include a Wheatstone ABC telegraph indicator, a Zerograph telegraph typewriter, various hand sets, a PBX switchboard and Dictograph telephone systems. There are 99 phonographs, cylinder recordings, accessories and publications relating to sound recording, including examples made by S. Bergman and Co. Also among the collection are 38 gramophones, 37 record players and speakers, 71 radios, 66 dictaphones and more than 100 records. There are 30 items broadly relating to television and broadcasting. Sound amplification is represented by eight microphones and 10 amplifiers. Other items, related to trade, include an Edmondson machine for printing card tickets, a press with five rollers, a small press, typeface, brass printing plates and printing blocks. Of particular significance is a set of about 68 objects relating to submarine telegraphy and a Baird Televisor receiving set.
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