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RSP/7/d/24
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Photograph: New Year's Fete: Electrical Engineering department
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- Jan 1927 (Creation)
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1 piece
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(1891-1970)
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Photograph of the Eelectrical Engineering Department's stall at the New Year's Fete, held at 309 Regent Street, demonstrating the Automatic Telephone Exchange.
The photograph shows a man seated at a telephone exchange with a list of 'numbers to be dialled on demonstration unit' and machinery labelled '1st Group Selectors', '2nd Group Selectors' and '3rd Group Selectors'. Annotated on reverse 'Automatic Telephone: Regent St Polytechnic. [Electrical Engineering] Dept exhibit. New Year's fete 6th-8th January 1927'
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Photopress, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, London.
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E68