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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under that name from 1963 to 1987. Its roots were in the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897, which underwent...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Graybar (redirect from Graybar Electric Company Incorporated)
Graybar Electric Company, Inc. is an American wholesale electrical, communications and data networking products distribution business, which also supplies...
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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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Pacific Bell (redirect from The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company)
(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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ETC (section Companies and organizations)
an American appropriate-technology organization Electric Telegraph Company, British Victorian company and ancestor of British Telecom European Technical...
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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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The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T...
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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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Bell System (redirect from Bell Operating Company)
system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the...
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District Telegraph Company, United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company, Universal Private Telegraph Company, Eastern Telegraph Company, British Telegraph Company...
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The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering...
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