Telecommunications

There are a number of reconstructions in the gallery that highlight significant themes or events. At one end of the gallery, your students will be able to see a typical ship’s radio cabin of about 1910 – the Titanic had a radio cabin much like this one.

This area of technology has followed a tradition of rapid development and there is a mock-up of a telecom exhibition from 1929 which captures the excitement of the rapid advancement of this technology during the 1920’s.

Another set up compares the difference between typical office equipment that people would use in 1883 and a hundred years later. Your students will also be able to make comparisons between offices they are familiar with now - and those of the 1980’s - and comment on the rapidity of development in the last 20 years.