Telecommunications Collections
This section of the museum includes collections featuring artefacts and equipment dating from the 19th century to the present day and document the evolution of the systems and techniques used in telecommunications in Portugal. List of collections below.
Optical/Visual Telegraphy
Equipment for sending coded messages, e.g., primitive sound and visual communication systems, semaphore, signalling lanterns, Chappe telegraph, shutter telegraph, sunshine recorders.
Electrical Telegraphy
Equipment for sending messages, e.g., Morse code, Bréguet, Hughes, Baudot, Fac-Simile, Telex, Videotex, Fax, CORFAC.
Telephony
Manual telephone terminals: early telephone and private-line terminals, local-battery telephone terminals, central-battery telephone terminals.
Automatic telephone terminals: automatic analogue telephone terminals with rotary and push-button dialling.
Digital telephone terminals: automatic digital telephone terminals, mobile terminals, mobile phones, pagers, satellite video-conferencing equipment.
Radio Communications
TWF equipment, such as: signal handlers, transmitters/receivers, antennas, coherers, reels, valves, and signal generators.
Switching
Equipment used to concentrate and forward communications, such as: manual switching centres, Strowger-type and coordinate-selector automatic switching centres, and digital automatic centres.
Transmitting
Equipment used to send telecommunications, broadcasting and TV signals, such as: outdoor equipment and studio equipment.
Power/Electricity Feed/Protection
Generators, feeders, motors, batteries, accumulators, transformers, surge arresters and fuses associated with telecommunications equipment.
Testing and Measuring
Equipment used in testing and measuring electrical and non-electrical quantities.
Computer Equipment
Hardware such as computer terminals, computers, keyboards, printers, modems, scanners and software.
Multimedia
Equipment for transmitting sound and image.
Tools
Specific telecommunications-related tools and commonly-used tools.