BT Museum

BT's offices at Baynard House, the former site of the BT Museum

The BT Museum was a telecommunications museum run by BT, that held artefacts and exhibits on the history of telecommunications in the United Kingdom.^[1] It was based in Baynard House in the Blackfriars district of London.^[2]

It was originally opened as the Telecom Technology Showcase in 1982.^[3]

It was closed to visitors in 1997, and replaced in 2001 by the Connected Earth initiative.

References

↑ "BT Museum". London Online. Archived from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
↑ John Chenery. "Last Call at Blackfriars…". Telecommunications Heritage Group (UK). Archived from the original on 10 March 2011. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
↑ Chris Godsmark (5 November 1996). "BT to pull the plug on phone museum". The Independent. Retrieved 2010-11-24.

Current	Adastral Park Baynard House BT Centre BT Tower London BT Tower Birmingham Stokenchurch BT Tower BT Tower Swansea Charwelton BT Tower Goonhilly Cornwall Guardian Exchange Manchester Heaton Park BT Tower National Network Management Centre Peterborough transmitting station Purdown BT Tower Pye Green BT Tower Stadium House, Cardiff Sutton Common BT Tower Tinshill BT Tower Tolsford Hill BT Tower Wotton-under-Edge BT Tower

Former	Anchor telephone exchange Bletchley Park Faraday Building Horwood House Kingsway telephone exchange Post Office Research Station Sheffield Telephone House Microwave network

Programmes and
standards

Current	21CN Digital Access Signalling System 1 Digital Access Signalling System 2 System X System Y

Defunct	TXE

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Category

Telecommunications

History	Beacon Broadcasting Cable TV Communications satellite Computer network Drums Electrical telegraph Fax Heliographs Hydraulic telegraph Internet Mass media Mobile phone Optical telecommunication Optical telegraphy Photophone Prepaid mobile phone Radio Radiotelephone Satellite communications Semaphore Smartphone Smoke signals Telecommunications history Telautograph Telegraphy Teleprinter (teletype) Telephone The Telephone Cases Television Timeline of communication technology Undersea telegraph line Videoconferencing Videophone Videotelephony

Pioneers	Edwin Howard Armstrong John Logie Baird Paul Baran Alexander Graham Bell Tim Berners-Lee Jagadish Chandra Bose Vint Cerf Claude Chappe Donald Davies Lee de Forest Philo Farnsworth Reginald Fessenden Elisha Gray Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi Antonio Meucci Alexander Stepanovich Popov Johann Philipp Reis Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred Vail Charles Wheatstone Vladimir K. Zworykin

Transmission media	Electromagnetic radiation Electrical cable Free-space optical communication Molecular communication Optical fiber

Network topology and switching	Links Nodes Terminal node Network switching (circuit packet) Telephone exchange

Multiplexing	Space-division Frequency-division Time-division Polarization-division Orbital angular-momentum Code-division

Networks	ARPANET BITNET Cellular network Computer CYCLADES Ethernet FidoNet Internet ISDN LAN Mobile NGN NPL network Public Switched Telephone Radio Telecommunications equipment Television Telex WAN Wireless World Wide Web

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Coordinates: 51°30.7151′N 0°6.0734′W / 51.5119183°N 0.1012233°W / 51.5119183; -0.1012233

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BT Museum

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