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THE REVOLVER!
    

This is the Muirhead transmitter, used by Mirror staff in the early 1960s to send pictures around the world. Technicians placed the image on the mechanically operated drum. As the drum revolved, variations in the amount of light reflected from the image were picked up by a photoelectric cell and turned into impulses that could be sent over telephone wires.
  

source : Daniel Evans
     
A GROWING NEED FOR FAST NEWS    

Teleprinters, like the Creed model 7 shown here, helped revolutionise newsgathering in the early twentieth century.The machine allowed newspaper pages to be printed automatically, with no need for Morse-code operators to laboriously record and decode incoming stories by hand.
 

source : Daniel Evans
     
THE ADVENTURERS    

In 1969 the Mirror sent a team out to cover Robin
Knox-Johnston’s single-handed sail around the world. They struggled in choppy seas to send images back from the small torpedo boat they had hired for the occasion. Sir Robin was able to keep the team fully abreast of all the highs and lows of his voyage with the help of this radio set. 		 

source : Daniel Evans
 
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