Robin Stevens: Photos: Cornwall, 2-8 September 2012: Porthcurno:

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum


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The museum, former communications hub and telegraph training school
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Anderson shelter
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Entrance to the bunker
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Blast-proof door
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Model of the SS Great Eastern
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Tuning capacitors
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Wimshurst machine
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Galvanometers and rheostat
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1851 lettered telegraph
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Recorder
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Kelvin's electricity balance, 1892
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Wheatstone bridge
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Titanic radio room mockup
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Cable & Wireless used to run the facilities here
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Cable & Wireless ashtray
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Posters
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World War 2 era equipment
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Do not use this old typewriter
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Secrecy is important
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Military radios
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World War 2 19-set radio
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Cold War era hotline to Moscow
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Submarine cables
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Severed cable
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Optical fibre splicing
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Model of an optical repeater
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Time zone map
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Telegraph hut on the beach
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Incoming cable
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Interior
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Lines from Gibraltar
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Communications frame
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