Computation, electronics and telecommunications

Philips model 2514 radio
Replica Enigma encryption machine
Wooden telephone
Olivetti Celint 3000 switchboard
Ericsson desktop telephone
Ericsson telephone
Bull General Electric console, model 415
Central Processing Unit (CPU) IBM System/360 model 30
Braun/SK 55 Radio-record-player
  • Wooden telephone

    Wooden telephone

    Record number: 6123
    Date: 1875 - 1925
    Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 7 cm

    Telephone made of two pieces of wood: one speaker and one microphone. They are connected by a copper cable. These were the first telephones to be used, and revolutionised the telecommunications system from the final third of the 19th century onwards, thanks to their invention by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.