Légende

I Could Never Have Believed it Possible!, 1896. 'Drama, Politics, Pulpit, General News, Opera'. Illustration from a flyer advertising a demonstration of the Electrophone, a distributed audio system that operated in the United Kingdom, primarily in London, between 1895 and 1925. Using conventional telephone lines, it relayed live theatre performances, music hall shows, and Sunday church services to subscribers who listened over special headsets. It ultimately failed due to the rise of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s.

Date

1896

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A13_383

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,2Mo (2,7Mo) / 26,4cm x 41,1cm / 3113 x 4849 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people technology communication communications music information arts playhouse entertainment art electricity theatre media listening British headphones feathers feather electric performance electrical performers performer performing advertisement advertising Victorian century advert Britain print concept theatrical B&W ad flyer vaudeville scrapbook 19th century ostrich feather black & white black and white B W music hall nineteenth century ephemera handbill ostrich feathers scrap book C Hentschel C Hentschell Hentschel C Hentschell C stage show Electrophone flier 19th-century The London Archives entertainments scrapbook variety act