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Introduction
Cooke & Wheatstone
The Electric Telegraph Company
Competitors & Allies
The Universal Telegraph
Bain
Non Competitors
How the Companies Worked
What the Companies Charged
The Companies and the News
The Companies and the Weather
The Companies Abroad
The Companies' Foreign Operations
Railway Signal Telegraphy 1838-68
Telegraph at War 1854-68
Technical Detail
Finale
Telegraph Stations 1862
Instrument Gallery
Telegraph Maps 1852-68
Telegraph Company Stamps
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Distant Writing

A History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868

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London, England - December 4, 2012



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The bulk of the textual content of Distant Writing was first published
on the internet on August 25, 2006

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Telegraph, from the Greek “tele”, distant, and “graphos”, writing

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