Among 800 objects on display will be the galvanometer used to send the first transatlantic telegraph message from Queen Victoria to the 15th President of the USA James Buchanan.
Another exhibit is the Marconi transmitter which made the first public broadcast in 1922.
The aerial induction coil from Rugby radio station – the world’s most powerful transmitter when it opened in 1926 – is on display.
Another exhibit is the NeXT computer used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to design the World Wide Web.
An ARM1 microprocessor will also be on display.
The gallery tells the story of the evolution of communications from the electric telegraph and the telephone exchange to broadcasting, satcomms, computer networking and mobile telephony.
Tomorrow the new gallery will be open to the public.
The gallery cost £15.6 million of which £6.3 million came from the Lottery.
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