THE SIGNAL BOX: Home Signal

"This web site is all about railway signalling. Its primary purpose is to describe the principles behind railway signalling in Great Britain, but some coverage of signalling around the world will also be found." With copious pictures.

to mechanica railway retrotech safety signalling ... on 07 September 2013

Website for Mike Horne author and researcher - Contents

Railway history. The book on the history of London Underground's telecommunications is particularly interesting.

to history london rail retrotech telecom train underground ... on 28 May 2013

Stokers and pokers (Open Library)

"or, The London and North Western Railway, the electric telegraph and the Railway Clearing House". An amusing 1849 memoir on the early railways.

to etext history railway retrotech ... on 24 March 2013

Phonograph Makers' Pages

Homebrew wax cylinder players. Some very neat engineering.

to audio cylinder electronics mechanica record recording retrotech turntable ... on 26 February 2013

Index of ftp://ftp.wideweb.com/GroupBell/

Evan Doorbell's phreaking (and general phone sound collecting) recordings. Hours of listening, if you're in the right frame of mind.

to phone phreaking retrotech telecom ... on 11 February 2013

AA1TJ

New home of projects like Das DereLicht.

to amateur electronics radio retrotech surplus ... on 25 November 2012

D A N Y K . W Z . C Z

Make your own X-ray machine, amongst a wide selection of other terrifying mad-science projects.

to electronics insanity photography retrotech xray ... on 22 October 2012

The History of Phone Phreaking

The blog is quite interesting, but the best bit's the scanned documents, including some classic 60s stuff on phone signalling.

to etext phone phreaking retrotech telecom ... on 13 October 2012

Older Phones & Phone Systems on VoIP

(Hm, thought I'd bookmarked this before.) Building an international hobbyist phone system by gluing together telephone collectors' exchanges using Asterisk. Very cool, and now remarkably large.

to asterisk history phone retrotech telecom ... on 13 October 2012

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