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Replica of a Chappe telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany. Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
Telegram numbers were 42 million in 1950, under 14 million in 1960, and only 7.7 million in 1970, the lowest it had ever been under nationalisation. [285] Repeated price rises by successive postmasters general, Ness Edwards and Ernest Marples , in an attempt to keep the deficit under control only made the situation worse by driving traffic down ...
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the use of telegrams had dropped significantly, with around 10 million sent annually in the mid-1960s. Consequently, the Post Office took the decision in 1977 to abolish the service. The service continued for a few years and was briefly operated by British Telecom after it split from the Post Office.
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
1 November 1960: The Bell System begins testing its push-button phone, starting with service in Findlay, Ohio. [39] 1960: Bell Labs conducts extensive field trial of an electronic central office in Morris, Illinois, known at the Morris System. 1960s: Bell Labs developed the electronics for cellular phones; 1961: Initiation of Touch-Tone service ...
Teletype teleprinters in use in England during World War II Example of teleprinter art: a portrait of Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962. A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.
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