telegraph: References & Edit History
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- Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
- mathematicsGauss
- Sir Frederick John Goldsmid
- David Hughes
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- Alexander Meissner
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Additional Reading
George Shiers (ed.), The Electric Telegraph: An Historical Anthology (1977); Lewis Coe, The Telegraph: A History of Morse’s Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States (1993); and Paul Israel, From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920 (1992), detail the development of the telegraph in the United States and Europe and include many excellent illustrations of a wide range of devices and systems related to telegraphy. Robert Luther Thompson, Wiring a Continent: The History of the Telegraph Industry in the United States, 1832–1866 (1947, reissued 1972), describes in detail the industry’s formative years and includes copies of Congressional acts and industrial agreements affecting the development of this industry. Brooke Hindle, Emulation and Invention (1981), deals with the evolution of new technology, including Morse’s development of the telegraph. Roger L. Freeman, Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, 2nd ed. (1993), is a technical sourcebook containing standards for various types of communication.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - The Transcontinental Telegraph. | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: London Museum - How the telegraph took off in Victorian London. | Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Electrifying Communication- The Telegraph and Telephone. | Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens - Introduction to Communication and Media Studies - Impacts of the Telegraph. | Jan 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Off Track - Telegraph Tales. | Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Control problems for the telegraph and wave equation networks (PDF). | Aug 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Guglielmo Marconi and wireless telegraphy in the Swedish daily press (PDF). | Jul 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Electrifying Communication- The Telegraph and Telephone. | Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Magnetic Academy - Morse Telegraph � 1844. | Feb 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - U.S. Diplomacy and the Telegraph, 1866. | Sep 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Electrical Telegraph. | Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Houston - The Engines of Our Ingenuity - Inventing the Telegraph. | Sep 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Elon University - Imagining the Internet - 1870s � 1940s: Telegraph. | May 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Telegraph. | Apr 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: EH.net - History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry. | Sep 21, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 02, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Inventors and Inventions - The Telegraph. | Mar 06, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Elon University School of Communications - Imagining the Internet | A History and Forecast - Telegraph. | Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things - History of the Telegraph. | Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Near Field Communication - Communication Across the Nation - The History of the Telegraph. | Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793 to 1919 - Invention of the Telegraph. | Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Telegraph. | May 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco - Biography of General Mariano G. Vallejo. | Nov 22, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 03, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Sam Hallas' Web Site - A Short History of Telegraphy. | Apr 13, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: International Tennis hall of Fame - Biography of Helen Wills Moody Roark. | Jul 18, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Biography of Frederic Remington. | Jul 18, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: IEEE Virtual Museum - Telegraphs and Telephones. | May 09, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |