Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom
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Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom
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In the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had the world's first commercial telegraph company. British telegraphy dominated international telecommunications well into the twentieth. Telegraphy is the sending of textual messages by human operators using symbolic codes. Electrical telegraphy used conducting wires to send messages, often incorporating a telegram service to deliver the telegraphed communication from the telegraph office. This is distinct from optical
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History of electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraphy_in_the_United_Kingdom
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2019-03-16T14:35:07Z
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2024-09-14T14:58:47Z
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