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17 photos and 2 illustrations tagged switch, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 5 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 4 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations

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Amateur wireless station (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Max Perrini said:

  Are inviting you to join them and add this wonderful photo to their group.
  Marconi, Radio and Radioamateurs Activity
  

• Doubtful Science said:

  Nice picture that how commnication technology has been improved. Although its function is very simple, the machine itself looks very complicated.

• Lú_ said:

  This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post Happy Birthday, Samuel Morse!
  
  

• Ken Carr said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Ham Shacks, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Joseph Swan in his Laboratory

from North East Museums

• John keys said:

  Sound chap This Mr Swan...

• Timothy Jones said:

  "... Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its invention by the American Thomas Edison ..." Now consider the idiocy of this. Swan demonstrated the light bulb, so he invented it. OK so the filament was a bit naff, and it was hard to achieve a good vacuum. Thomas Edison cannot have invented it AFTER Swan had already demonstrated it. Give Edison the credit for improving it, and creating a production line for its manufacture, but please, do not fall into that Transatlantic error of thinking Edison invented the light bulb. He did not.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Timothy Jones thanks. We've reworded the caption - we certainly don't believe it was Edison who invented the lightbulb!

On the bridge of 'Naess Crusader'

from North East Museums

• A.Davey said:

  Ah, a bridge of a large ship before GPS and before electronic charts on glass screens. But somehow shipping did just fine without all that.