Electrical telegraph
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electrical-telegraph-163-18034931
title:
Electrical telegraph
text:
Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and the most widely used of a number of early messaging systems called telegraphs, that were devised to send text messages more quickly than physically carrying them. Electrical telegraphy can be considered the first example of electrical engineering. Text telegraphy consisted of two or more geographically separated stat
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early system for transmitting text over wires
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph
date created:
2001-05-10T16:14:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T15:51:50Z
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