The collection field of information and communication technology records and interprets the roles of information and the associated technologies in our society and examines how they reflect our understanding of who we are.
Information technologies encompass all the knowledge, activities and objects that relate to storage, retrieval, display, reproduction, manipulation and transmission of information.
• Computing
• Control systems and robots
• Broadcast media
• Network communications
• Audio-visual technologies
• Printing technologies
Selected objects from the collection
Difference Engine specimen piece, Charles Babbage, 1822-1879
Edison Projecting Kinetoscope, 1897-1900
Robot, Aibo entertainment robot, Sony, Japan, 1999
Television, Baird 'Televisor', electro-mechanical, c1930
Television receiver, General Electric, 1938
Gramophone, Berliner, 1893-1896
Australia
Post historical collection, 19th and 20th centuries
Collection, esp philately re aviation, EA
& VI Crome, 20th century
Collection of stamps, Vickery, 1840-1940
Collection, Wimble & Co, printers, 19th
and 20th centuries
Dandy roller used in stamp manufacture,
1914
Envelope posted at the Garden Palace post
office, 1879
Envelope, proof of GPO Sydney embossed die,
1838
Letter from W C Wentworth, 1805
Mail from NSW to UK, 1816-1817
NSW Government Printing Office collection,
c1870-1989
Printing press, Hughes & Kimber, c1830
Printing
press, Stanhope, c1825