Telecommunications has used cables for over 150 years, and today the globe is spanned by millions of miles of them. The Connected Earth exhibition at Amberley Museum and heritage Centre tells the story of the amazing power of communication by cable – here is a taster.
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Can you beat our games? Explode equipment to see what's inside, hear the changing sounds of telecommunications, see how telecommunications designs have changed over time or send an e-postacard.
History of telecommunications in the UK to be digitised in New Connections project - BT Archives, Coventry University and The National Archives to put key photographs and documents online. Find out more...
Take a trip down memory lane with extracts of the interviews which have been recorded as part of the Connected Earth oral history programme.
100 years of automatic switching!
In 1912 the GPO installed Britain's first automatic telephone exchange in Epsom.
