HISTORY PAGES

General items

• Automatic exchanges in Britain - The first twenty years (and that means from 1889, not 1912!)
• Cable ship Alert
• Cold War communications - This is just the start of a growing file on a little-discussed subject, with a supplement on (once) secret places you can now visit and a note on Backbone and ACE HIGH
• Company histories - Including Australia, Bell enterprises, Hull Corporation, SPRINT and several suppliers
• Deep Shafts
• Emergency - Sixty years of the 999 service.
• Exchange development - An interesting article from the 1930s.
• History of Fax
• Events in recent telecomms history in Britain
• Lasts - Yes, why not? Everyone else is obsessed with 'Firsts' but why not 'Lasts' as well?
• Liberalisation - Of telephone equipment in the UK
• Phone fiddling - In the past (long ago!)
• Privatisation - of BT - recent old history
• Strange stories of cable communications during World War II
• TAT1 - The first transatlantic telephone cable
• Telegraphic Codes
• The Railophone
• TIM - The British speaking clock
• A British telephone stamp - 1884