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Description: | The museum has early army signalling equipment; equipment used by the Royal Engineers Signal Service during World War I; and equipment used by the Corps since its formation in 1920.
Among the collection are: heliographs including that used by General de Wet in 1901 and captured by the Mobile Column under command of Col D deB Lisle, a 10-inch heliograph and a 5-inch heliograph with stand and case; a signalling lamp, electric Mark III, c.1917; lantern signalling, bullseye, c.1880; teh Begbie Signalling lamp, c,1892; the first electric field signalling lamp; a rheostat from General Krugers' telegraph set captured at Nelsprut in 1900 by Major R S Curtis RE (later Major General Sir Reginald Curtis).
There is an extensive collection of military telephonic equipment. | Subjects: | Communications Army Science & Industry Service (military) Telecommunications | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Blandford Camp
Blandford Forum,
DT11 8RH | FAX: | 01258 482 084 | Telephone: | 01258 482 267 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:96 | Go to resource |
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