GOWER BELL TELEFPHONE, DONATED BY THE SÁNCHEZ-ARJONA FAMILY, AND WICH HAD MADE THE FIRST TELEPHONE CALL IN SPAIN IN 1880

Automatic desktop telephone with central battery and disc.

This chair was used by the female guards in the switchboards. Its height allowed control of the operators' stations. It has a double jack for communication.

Visit by the King to the Gran Vía power station.

Barcelona-Valls intercity cable. Unloading of coils on the Molins de Rey road.

LINE CONSTRUCTION

Madrid. H.M. the King, Marqués de Urquijo and Mr. Proctor contemplating the panorama of Madrid from one of the upper floors of the new building on Gran Vía.

Antennas at Plátanos station. Argentina

Madrid. View of the Gran Vía building.

San Luis network from Montera. Gran Vía building in Madrid.

First telephone installed in Spain. Frenegal de la Sierra. 1880.

Scaffolding to lower the façade on Fuencarral Street

The Gran Vía building seen from Calle de Alcalá.

An office in the large engineering hall. 2nd floor of the Gran Vía building.

Group of ladies in traffic.

Felling of trees on the Cuenca-Valencia road damaging the telephone line.

Cordoba - Algeciras line.

Guest journalists and employees on the day of the inauguration of the automatic power plant.

Salamanca. Calle de los Bandos. Company building, with automatic exchange, interurban and offices.

BUILDINGS : CENTRAL BUILDING IN SEVILLA DURING THE IBEROAMERICAN EXPOSITION