Imperial Wireless Chain
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title:
Imperial Wireless Chain
text:
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the countries of the British Empire. The stations exchanged commercial and diplomatic text message traffic transmitted at high speed by Morse code using paper tape machines. Although the idea was conceived prior to World War I, the United Kingdom was the last of the world's great powers to implement an operational system. The
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description:
Radiotelegraphic communications network within the British Empire in the 20th century
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Wireless_Chain
date created:
2010-11-04T01:21:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T18:29:25Z
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