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Last Tuesday an old Wagner type “motherclock”was collected in Voorburg and brought to the museum. This once controlled the clocks in the former main office of the Dutch Postal Cheque and Giro Service (PCGD) in The Hague. As this office was built at the same time as the museum, this clock could have a respectable …
On May 5th 1923, the first regular radio-telegraph connection with the (then) Dutch East Indies was put into service, for this purpose a radio station had been built in Kootwijk and a receiving station in Malabar (35 Km south of Bandoeng). In 1916, the scientist C.J. de Groot stated that a long wave radio would …
Our Telecom Museum is housed in the building at Vlaggemanstraat 15 in Rotterdam Noord. This building was built in 1923 as a telephone exchange Rotterdam North. So this year is 100 years old. We would like to pay more attention to that. So if you know anything about the building, please let us know. We …
We had the opportunity to take a look at the building at 187 Botersloot, Rotterdam Center. The Rt-C11, Rt-C 12/13, Rt-C 14 and Rt-C 33 Central Exchanges were installed here. When these AGF and ARF plants were replaced, these became Rt-C A, Rt-C F/G, Rt-C D and Rt-C E. Unfortunately, this era is also over …
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In 2020 we received a nice amount of € 3,000 subsidy from the Prince Bernhard culture fund. This allows us to manage and document the collection even better.
