The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean...
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telecommunications cables. The Atlantic Telegraph Company led by Cyrus West Field constructed the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in...
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the Eastern Telegraph Company - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. JISC. Retrieved 4 June 2023. Burns, Bill. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine...
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the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company to manufacture and maintain the transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company. He...
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Western Union (redirect from Western Union Telegraph Company)
Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging...
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British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company (also called the Magnetic Telegraph Company or the Magnetic) was a provider of telegraph services and infrastructure...
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other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Field was born in Stockbridge...
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Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
followed. Getting a cable across the Atlantic Ocean proved much more difficult. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, formed in London in 1856, had several...
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The California State Telegraph Company was a business originally organized to provide telegraph service between San Francisco and Marysville, California...
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Countries. The Atlantic Telegraph Company was formed in London in 1856 to undertake to construct a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. It...
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Submarine communications cable (redirect from Underwater telegraph cable)
feasible. When he subsequently became chief electrician of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, he became involved in a public dispute with William Thomson....
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The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company (A&P) was an American communications company that operated in the 19th century. The Maine Legislature chartered...
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Cable & Wireless plc (redirect from Falmouth, Malta, Gibraltar Telegraph Company)
telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, and cites Sir John Pender as the founder. In 1869, Pender founded the Falmouth, Malta, Gibraltar Telegraph Company...
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AT&T Corporation (redirect from American Telephone & Telegraph Company)
its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet...
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Wildman Whitehouse (category Telegraph engineers and inventors)
pioneering endeavour to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company between western Ireland to eastern Newfoundland. This...
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The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group...
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French Atlantic Cable Company (Société du Cable Transatlantique Francaise Limited) was established in 1869 to install a transatlantic telegraph cable independent...
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Samuel Morse (section Telegraph)
transoceanic telegraph line. Morse had experimented with underwater telegraph circuits since 1842. He invested $10,000 in Field's Atlantic Telegraph Company, took...
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One Communications Guyana (formerly Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company) is a fixed local exchange carrier (LEC) based in Guyana, South America. It...
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Postal Telegraph Company (Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation) was a major operator of telegraph networks in the United States prior to its consolidation...
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Gutta Percha Company, and later electrician-in-chief of the first transatlantic telegraph cable project of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, also using the...
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Association in 1856 by Wildman Whitehouse, the electrician of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. Whitehouse had possibly misinterpreted the results of his own...
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The Submarine Telegraph Company was a British company which laid and operated submarine telegraph cables. Jacob and John Watkins Brett formed the English...
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James Buchanan (section Transatlantic telegraph cable)
Privy Council for Trade and the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to Inquire Into the Construction of Submarine Telegraph Cables: Together with the Minutes...
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J. P. Morgan (category American financial company founders)
a "considerable sum" selling shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company after the trans-Atlantic telegraph wire was laid. Despite this success, the firm's...
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The India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company was a London-based company based in Silvertown, East London. It was founded by Stephen William...
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Strait and Sibera to Moscow. Field's Atlantic Telegraph Company laid the first transatlantic cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. However, it had broken...
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Islands. Soon after changing the name to Virgin Atlantic Airways, Fields sold his shares in the company to Richard Branson in return for unlimited free...
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could be made to work with a high voltage induction coil. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, in a hurry to push ahead with the project, went with Whitehouse's...
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Canadian National Railway (redirect from Canadian National Telegraph Company)
National Telegraph Company. CN Telegraphs began co-operating with its Canadian Pacific-owned rival CPR Telegraphs in the 1930s, sharing telegraph networks...
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