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Beauchamp, Ken, History of Telegraphy, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2001 ISBN 978-0-85296-792-8. Bennett, Robert J., Local Business Voice: The History of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Revolutionary America, 1760-2011, Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 0-19-958473-7.
Immediately after the public adoption of the present system of land-telegraphy, Mr. Lindsay directed his attention to the sending of messages across water by means of insulated wires, and succeeded – after several trials on ponds and sheets of water in the neighborhood – in establishing on a sure basis the principles of electric ...
O'Hara, Glen. "New Histories of British Imperial Communication and the 'Networked World' of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries" History Compass (2010) 8#7pp 609–625, Historiography, Richardson, Alan J. "The cost of a telegram: Accounting and the evolution of international regulation of the telegraph." Accounting History 20#4 (2015): 405–429.
Part of a document showing the company seal 1854 stamps of the Electric Telegraph Company An Electric & International Telegraph Company telegram and envelope, 28 July 1868. The Electric Telegraph Company (ETC) was a British telegraph company founded in 1846 by William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo. It was the world's first public telegraph ...
Bright's father, Charles Tilston Bright, was the chief electrician (chief engineer) of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, a major customer of the Gutta Percha Company, [26] and later electrician-in-chief of the first transatlantic telegraph cable project of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, also using the Gutta Percha Company's product. [27]
The Electric Telegraph: A Social and Economic History. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5883-9. OCLC 655205099. Mercer, David, The Telephone: The Life Story of a Technology, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 ISBN 031333207X; Schwoch, James (2018). Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. University of Illinois Press.
William Thomas Henley (1814–1882) was a pioneer in the manufacture of telegraph cables. [1] [2] He was working as a porter in Cheapside in 1830, leaving after disputes with his employer, and working at the St Katherine Docks for six years. During those years he was determined to learn a trade and used money from an aunt to purchase a lathe ...
Britain also possessed the majority of the world's underwater-telegraph deployment and repair equipment and expertise, and a monopoly of the gutta-percha insulation for underwater lines. [ 5 ] The 1911 report stated that the Imperial Wireless Chain should only be a "valuable reserve" to the All Red Line, because enemies could interrupt or ...