SLT is an integral part of this proud history and continues to evolve with technology and industry advancements. In order to showcase and share this memorable and transformative journey with the entire nation, SLT decided to convert its iconic Padukka Satellite Station into a museum that will display SLT’s valuable collection of communications items and take its visitors on a transformative journey of Sri Lanka’s telecommunications industry.
Establishment of The Ceylon Telegraph Department. Telegraph is a system for transmitting messages over long distances along a wire using electrical signals.A single Morse telegraph circuit was established in Sri Lanka in 1858, heralding the growth of telecommunications in Sri...
Post and Telegraph Department of Ceylon established at General Post Office building, Colombo.With the establishment of the Department, under the Postmaster General and Director of Telegraphs T.E.B. Skinner, the telegraph industry flourished. By 1905, nearly 3,300 miles of...
Colombo’s wireless telegraph station, set up in 1912 enabled radio communications to be carried out by ships at sea. Wireless telegraphy is the transmission of electric telegraphy signals without wires, using a variety of techniques including photoelectric and induction...
Installation of Automatic Telephone Exchange at Kahawatta in Ratnapura District. Automatic telephone exchanges, or dial service eliminated the need for human switchboard operators who completed the connections required for a telephone call and replaced them with...
A satellite earth station is a ground-based receiving or transmitting/receiving station in a satellite communications system that communicate with satellites by transmitting and receiving radio waves. The satellite earth station itself is usually an antenna that includes a...
SE-ME-WE submarine cable link is drawn ashore in Sri Lanka in 1985.
Early stage manual exchange consist of human operators that interconnect (switch) telephone subscriber lines or to establish telephone calls between subscribers.
Installation of Automatic Telephone Exchange at Kahawatta in Ratnapura District. Automatic telephone exchanges, or dial service eliminated the need for human switchboard operators who completed the connections required for a telephone call and replaced them with...
Automated exchanges eliminated the need for human switchboard operators who completed the connections required for a telephone call and replaced them with electromechanical systems. Telephones were equipped with a dial by which a caller transmitted the destination telephone...
Morse code transmitter used for international communications. Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.
The telex network is a switched network of teleprinters (electromechanical typewriters) similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages.
One of the very first digital telephones.
In earlier days, telephone and telegraph wires were suspended from high poles along the streets rather than underground.
A capacitance tester is electronic test equipment that measures the capacitance of telephone equipment.
