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Telephone
- See displays of telephony equipment in the Connecting Manchester gallery in the 1830 warehouse at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
- Visit www.telephonesuk.co.uk for pictures and information about hundreds of different telephones and pieces of associated equipment.
- Visit www.britishtelephones.com for information about the history of UK Customer Telephone Apparatus & Systems
- Browse through links on www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/history.php for more pictures and information about telephones
- Watch the IET (Manchester) Christmas Lecture 2006 From Talking 2 Txting, available at www.cntr.salford.ac.uk/comms/lectures.php to learn more about the development of the telephone from the days of Alexander Graham Bell to the mobile phone
- Read The Telephone: The Life Story of a Technology, David Mercer, Greenwood Press (2006), ISBN-10: 031333207X, ISBN-13: 978-0313332074 to learn more about the history behind the devices that are becoming ubiquitous in modern-day life