Knowledge: telegraphy
See Also:
- recreation → antiques → telephones and telegraphs → telegraphs
- recreation → radio → amateur → boatanchors → morse telegraphy
Links
- The Aurora Borealis and the Telegraph
http://www.rainbowriderstradingpost.com/article1.html - Essay on how solar flares crippled communications during the 19th century.
- History of Teletype Development
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/history_of_teletype_development_.htm - Brief historical account of the printing telegraph system.
- The Railroad Telegrapher
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow702h.htm - Article by Jim Thompson, a retired San Francisco Railway telegrapher.
- Telegrams
http://home.iprimus.com.au/oseagram/ - History of the telegram since 1844 transmitted by morse or teleprinter.
- The Sparks Telegraph Key Review
http://www.zianet.com/sparks/index.html - An interactive historical and pictorial review of telegraph and wireless telegraph keys. Included is a comprehensive listing of the manufacturers actively building equipment and keys during the spark-era of radio.
- History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy
http://atlantic-cable.com/ - Traces the history of undersea cable communications, from the first telegraph cables used in 1850 to the fiber optic cables used today for the Internet.
- The Atlantic Cable
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/atlantic-cable/ - Image reproduction of a book by Bern Dibner, published by the Burndy Library.
- Thomas A. Edison Papers
http://edison.rutgers.edu/ - Information and documents about Edison's life and career including his years as a telegrapher and inventions in the field of telegraphy.
- Ezra Cornell: a Nineteenth-Century Life
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/entrance.html - An on-line exhibit from Cornell University Library that documents his involvement with the construction of the first telegraph lines in America.
- Historic Speedwell - Morristown, NJ - Home
http://speedwell.org/ - A National Historic Site where Alfred Vail constructed and improved the telegraph instruments used by Samuel Morse. Included is an account of the development of the telegraph from Vail's perspective.
- Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1791-1919
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmhome.html - An online presentation comprising about 6,500 items that document Morse's career, including his invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph and participation in the development of telegraph systems used in the United States and abroad.
- Telegraph History
http://www.telegraph-history.org - an assortment of articles that focus on U.S. telegraph history.
- Telegraph Instruments of Europe
http://www.faradic.net/~gsraven/fons_images/fons_museum.html - An extensive presentation of the private telegraph instrument collection of Fons Vanden Berghen. Many of the instruments presented appeared his book, "Classics of Communication".
- Events in Telecommunications History
http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/Eventsintelecommunicationshistory/Eventsintelecommunica... - A chronology of telecommunications history from the British Telecom Group archives.
- The Joseph Henry Papers Project
http://www.si.edu/archives/ihd/jhp/ - Documenting the life of the revered American scientist who conducted pioneering work in electromagnetism. His unselfish genius helped bring about the inventions of the telegraph, electric motor, and telephone.
- Knights of the Key.
http://home.mindspring.com/~railroadstories/rrmmv1n1/knights.htm - Old time telegraphers tell their stories. Taken from early editions of Railroad Man's Magazine.
- The Commercial Cable Company
http://www.cial.org.uk - History of the Commercial Cable Company and its Atlantic telegraph cables.
- Western Union Telegraph Company Records
http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_wu_index.aspx - Scope and contents of the collection held at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Archives Center. Features a history of the company and collection. A major resource for researchers.
- The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy
http://www.raes.ab.ca/TASRT/ - A comprehensive manual for learning, using, mastering and enjoying Morse code as a means of communication, by William G. Pierpont, N0HFF.
- The Electromagnetic Telegraph
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/morse/morse.htm - A technical history of the 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph by Dr. James B. Calvert.
- The Early History of Data Networks
http://labit501.upct.es/ips/libros/TEHODN/toc.html - The on-line version of a book by Gerard J. Holzman and Bjorn Pehrson with extensive information about the history of optical telegraphy.
- Granville T. Woods
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/woods.html - Biography of this African-American engineer and inventor, who developed and patented several inventions relating to telegraphy.
- The Overland Telegraph
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/overland.htm - Essay describes the construction of the telegraph connecting Adelaide and the rest of Australia, through Darwin, with England in 1872.
- Civil War Signal Corps and United States Military Telegraph
http://www.civilwarsignal.org/ - Contains information on how the telegraph was used during the Civil War.
- Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph
http://www.insulators.com/books/mpet/ - The entire 19th century book by Franklin Pope is viewable at this site. This was the standard reference book used by the U.S. Signal Service.
- N7CFO
http://www.n7cfo.com/ - The homepage of ham radio operator, Lynn Burlingame, N7CFO. This site includes several resources for telegraph historians including the index of the 1894 book, "Telegraphers of Today." Also available is the index and information about the publication, "The N7CFO KeyLetter," a major resource for telegraph instrument collectors.
- Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple&c=moa&sid=611f825d47fd892f&... - Full text of Alexander Jones. 1852 publication.
- Stock Ticker History
http://www.stocktickercompany.com/stc/history/ - A brief history of the development of the stock ticker.
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