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The Telectroscope is
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- Tiscali UK – Information, entertainment, broadband, email and internet access.
- Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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Gallery
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From Alexander Stanhope St George’s files
A late 19th century technical drawing of the Telectroscope
Alexander Stanhope St George, aged nine, with Brunel
An illustration of the Telectroscope concept from Alexander Stanhope St George’s papers
A technical drawing of the island from which the tunnel was dug
A Punch cartoon satirising the construction of the tunnel
A technical drawing showing a cross-section of the tunnel
Amazing discoveries…
This compass was used by Alexander Stanhope St George, inventor of the Telectroscope, when carrying out the original excavations for the transatlantic tunnel in the late 19th century.