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    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...
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    two broad categories. First are the needle telegraphs, in which electric current sent down the telegraph line produces electromagnetic force to move...
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    John Lewis Ricardo formed the Electric Telegraph Company which initially supplied telegraph systems to railway companies but soon branched out into other...
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    largest telegraph company in the United Kingdom, Electric Telegraph Company (the Electric), and became the leading company in Ireland. The two companies dominated...
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  • of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies. Its roots were in the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company, which underwent several changes in name...
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    historical British telcos Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company.distantwriting.co.uk 25 June 2012. Hiscocks, Steve. Telegraph & Telephone Stamps of the World:...
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    railway companies. Cooke's Electric Telegraph Company, formed in 1846, provided the first public telegraph service. The needle telegraphs of the Electric Telegraph...
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  • the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company was formed on the Island with the intention of connecting across the Island by telegraph, and allowing messages...
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    and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Bain was born...
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    Utility pole (redirect from Telegraph Post)
    company, the Electric Telegraph Company. Telegraph poles were first used on the Great Western Railway in 1843 when the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph...
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    General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston...
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    them, giving up work on the telegraph in the process. His telegraph patents were purchased by the Electric Telegraph Company in 1847 for £600, mostly in...
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    Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company. This company bought out the Cooke and Wheatstone patents and solidly established the telegraph business. In 1869...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    Morse. The electric telegraph was slower to develop in France due to the established optical telegraph system, but an electrical telegraph was put into...
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    William Fothergill Cooke (category Telegraph engineers and inventors)
    telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company...
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  • telegraphist. She joined the Electric Telegraph Company in 1853 and rose to be a supervisor and then matron to the company's women employees. She was also...
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    Street, London, and the offices of the Electric Telegraph Company in Lothbury. The Electric Telegraph Company used the system to acquire stock prices...
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    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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    Graybar Electric Company, Inc. is an American wholesale electrical, communications and data networking products distribution business, which also supplies...
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  • (by Date) | Western Electric/Bell System | Catalogs, Manuals, Educational Docs (by Company)". Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. 1953. Retrieved 2013-06-11...
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  • an American appropriate-technology organization Electric Telegraph Company, British Victorian company and ancestor of British Telecom European Technical...
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  • BT Group (category Companies based in the City of London)
    date back to the founding in 1846 of the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, which developed a nationwide communications...
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    Norwich and Yarmouth. He was also one of the founders of the Electric Telegraph Company, which enabled the public generally to enjoy the benefits of telegraphic...
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  • List of historical British telcos (category Lists of companies of the United Kingdom)
    Anglo-American Telegraph Company Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company British Electric Telegraph Company British...
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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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  • Western Electric Co., Inc. was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T...
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    The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
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    the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company and the firm aimed to compete with the dominant Electric Telegraph Company in the London area. Its original...
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    such as Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Co. Ltd., the Electric Telegraph Company and the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company. One sideline to the...
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    Stewart's daughters. Dickey was a director of the Nova Scotia Electric Telegraph Company and consular agent for the United States at Amherst. From 1858...
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