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Subject

Telegraph

Images

  • The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.
  • Telegram sent by G. Marconi in Wimereux to Édouard Branly in Paris, acknowledging Branly's work in developing the electric telegraph across the Channel. Photograph, ca. 1899.
  • Magnetism: electrical equipment and magnetic phenomena. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Submarine telegraphy and the hunt for gutta percha : challenge and opportunity in a global trade / by Helen Godfrey.

    Godfrey, Helen L. | Date: [2018]
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    History, theory, and practice of the electric telegraph / By George B. Prescott.

    Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894. | Date: 1866
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    Telegram sent by G. Marconi in Wimereux to Édouard Branly in Paris, acknowledging Branly's work in developing the electric telegraph across the Channel. Photograph, ca. 1899.

    Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937. | Date: 1899 | Reference: 571653i
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    Morse's patent : Full exposure of Dr. Chas. T. Jackson's pretensions to the invention of the American electro-magnetic telegraph / by Hon. Amos Kendall.

    Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869. | Date: 1852
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    The British military expedition against the Bruges-Ostend canal, 1798: Joseph Jekyll M.P provides two different reports on it by telegraph, using rolled-up newspapers as telescopes. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1798.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: June 23rd 1798 | Reference: 36180i
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