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In my past two Cannonball blog posts, we learned about railroad ticket agent Joseph Leib, conductor John Eckert, and telegrapher Daniel Trone and their efforts to escape from Hanover and Hanover ...

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Last week I began this discussion of Civil War infrastructure in Arkansas with a look at roads, railroads, bridges, and manufacturing of war material. The story continues with a look at telegraphy, ...

Appendices (p. [655]-685): I. Wireless telegraphy act of 1904. II. Bibliography of electric wave telegraphy. III. British patent specifications for improvements in electric wave telegraphy between ...

THIS little book is divided into fifteen chapters, each chapter consisting of three or four paragraphs of large print describing the historical development of the ionic valve, the principles on which ...

An Interesting Discourse by Prof. Fleming on the Rapid Advance in the Commercial Application of Wireless Telegraphy.-Further Progress Dependent On Exact Measurement Of Electric Waves ...

In the early 19th century, trans-Atlantic diplomacy, however urgent, was constrained by one thing: the speed of sailing ships. The average passage took at least a month. This could lead to vexing ...

WHY Mr. Beechy should wish to depart from ordinary usage and call his book electro-telegraphy rather than electric telegraphy, we have no idea. The assumption of an eccentric title for a scientific ...

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