ClipArt ETC

The Telephone and Telegraph Industry ClipArt gallery offers 75 illustrations of telephones and telegraph equipment, including early models and supporting infrastructure such as cable and switchboards.

Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver until the 1980s. After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison and not Emile Berliner—was the inventor of the carbon microphone. The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.

Telephone Transmitter Carbon Microphone

Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone used in all telephones along with the Bell receiver…

Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed, and new controversies over the issue have arisen from time-to-time. As with other great inventions such as radio, television, light bulb, and computer, there were several inventors who did pioneering experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas.

Telephone Transmitting Device

Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed, and new controversies over…

The candlestick or upright telephone was used in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Candlestick Telephone

The candlestick or upright telephone was used in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Orthographic projection drawing of a candlestick or upright telephone. An orthographic projection is the method of representing the exact form of an object in two or more views on planes generally at right angles to each other, by dropping perpendiculars fro the object to the planes.

Orthographic Projection of Candlestick Telephone

Orthographic projection drawing of a candlestick or upright telephone. An orthographic projection is…

An illustration of one of the early telephones, known as a chemical telephone. Some used a liquid transmitter, some had a metal diaphragm that induced current in an electromagnet wound around a permanent magnet, and some were "dynamic" - their diaphragm vibrated a coil of wire in the field of a permanent magnet or the coil vibrated the diaphragm.

Chemical Telephone

An illustration of one of the early telephones, known as a chemical telephone. Some used a liquid transmitter,…

An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals.

Early Model Telephone

An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote…

An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals.

Early Use Telephone

An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote…

"When a person speaks into the transmitter, the pulsations of the air, produced by the voice, produce the slight vibrations of the diaphragm...and these vary the pressure of the platinum point on the carbon disk, and these vary the strength of the electric current, and reproduce precisely similar vibrations in the diaphragm of the receiver, at the opposite end of the line, which reproduce the spoken words." -Atkinson 1903

Electric Telephone

"When a person speaks into the transmitter, the pulsations of the air, produced by the voice, produce…

This telephone uses magnets that converts sound into electrical signals to be transmitted over distances and then converts the signals back.

First Uses of the Telephone

This telephone uses magnets that converts sound into electrical signals to be transmitted over distances…

A tin can telephone is a type of voice-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similar articles attached to either end of a string.

Tin Can Telephone

A tin can telephone is a type of voice-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similar…

This telephone wall mount bracket allows you to mount the main unit to a vertical surface. This device includes a covered cable tray for organized cable management.

Mounting for Telephonic Device

This telephone wall mount bracket allows you to mount the main unit to a vertical surface. This device…

a transmitter is an electronic device which, usually with the aid of an antenna, propagates an electromagnetic signal such as radio, television, or other telecommunications.

Telephone Transmitter

a transmitter is an electronic device which, usually with the aid of an antenna, propagates an electromagnetic…

"Wireless Telegraphy is a system of transmitting messages between distant points without the use of wires."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Wireless Telegraph Transmitter

"Wireless Telegraphy is a system of transmitting messages between distant points without the use of…

Boys playing with a wireless apparatus.

Wireless

Boys playing with a wireless apparatus.

Yeate's dial telegraph from 1875.

Yeate's Telegraph

Yeate's dial telegraph from 1875.