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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…
Alexander Stanhope St George, inventor of the Telectroscope, was inspired by a chance meeting with the great British engineer Brunel when he was still a child. St George’s great–grandson found this photograph after his grandmother’s death.