Telegram facts for kids
A telegram (Greek tele: distant and gramma: letter) is a written message transmitted by using an electric device. The message was carried along wires, and the text written or printed and delivered by hand or teleprinter.
Telegrams were very widely used, because private telephones were not usual. Nowadays they are not useful because most people have private telephones and the use of e-mail. The idea was developed by the British Post Office as a service for urgent letters.
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Images for kids
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Replica of Claude Chappe's optical telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany
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Great Wall of China
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Schematic of a Prussian optical telegraph (or semaphore) tower, c. 1835
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Cooke and Wheatstone's five-needle, six-wire telegraph (1837)
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A Morse key (c. 1900)
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An early Cooke and Wheatstone double-needle railway telegraph instrument at the National Railway Museum
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Australian troops using a Mance mk.V heliograph in the Western Desert in November 1940
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US Forest Service lookout using a Colomb shutter type heliograph in 1912 at the end of a telephone line
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A Baudot keyboard, 1884
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Creed paper tape reader at The National Museum of Computing
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The first message is received by the Submarine Telegraph Company in London from Paris on the Foy-Breguet instrument in 1851. The equipment in the background is a Cooke and Wheatstone set for onward transmission.
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The Eastern Telegraph Company network in 1901
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Alexander Bain's facsimile machine, 1850
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Marconi watching associates raising the kite (a "Levitor" by B.F.S. Baden-Powell) used to lift the antenna at St. John's, Newfoundland, December 1901
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Post Office Engineers inspect Marconi's equipment on Flat Holm, May 1897
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Western Union telegram (1930)
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Teletype 32 terminal with telex dial-up facility
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An illustration declaring that the submarine cable between England and France would bring those countries peace and goodwill
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