In 1804 Richard Lovell Edgeworth began transmitting telegraphic messages from Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland, to Galway, on the west coast. Claims of rapid transmission speeds appeared in national newspapers and great excitement was provoked by this marvel of modern science. Its potential as a means of secret military communication was self-evident. Edgeworth’s optical telegraph was but one of many that appeared in Europe in the period following the French Revolution
The collection consists of individual issues of The Lantern a newspaper printed in Chester, South Ca...
During July I spent some time in Ireland; in the beautiful, south-west corner that is Kerry. Whilst ...
One of the first histories of wireless communications, J.J. Fahie's A History of Wireless Telegraphy...
In 1804 Richard Lovell Edgeworth began transmitting telegraphic messages from Dublin, on the east c...
© Cambridge University Press 1999. Paper condensed from chapters of the author's doctoral dissertati...
In this thesis, I investigate private telegraphy from its rise in the late 1830s to the advent of ex...
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The collection consists of individual issues of The Lantern a newspaper printed in Chester, South Ca...
During July I spent some time in Ireland; in the beautiful, south-west corner that is Kerry. Whilst ...
One of the first histories of wireless communications, J.J. Fahie's A History of Wireless Telegraphy...
In 1804 Richard Lovell Edgeworth began transmitting telegraphic messages from Dublin, on the east c...
© Cambridge University Press 1999. Paper condensed from chapters of the author's doctoral dissertati...
In this thesis, I investigate private telegraphy from its rise in the late 1830s to the advent of ex...
1. Early forms of optical communication: In 1588, when the Armada was sighted sailing up the English...
Summary: Although already in existence at the end of the seventeenth century, the telegraph was seen...
This paper explores the early development of practical electric telegraphy in Britain during the nin...
The Internet is the result of scientific and technological developments that have occurred in the fi...
Abstract A number of recent histories of Britain's late-19th century telegraph network have tak...
We currently live in an age so dominated by easy access to information through the Internet that peo...
This paper reviews the birth of telegraphy and its take-up in Malta before the advent of radio. The ...
This paper examines the political and economic circumstances surrounding the introduction of interna...
This chapter surveys the history of telecommunications from a global perspective and highlights thre...
The collection consists of individual issues of The Lantern a newspaper printed in Chester, South Ca...
During July I spent some time in Ireland; in the beautiful, south-west corner that is Kerry. Whilst ...
One of the first histories of wireless communications, J.J. Fahie's A History of Wireless Telegraphy...